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author | Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-01-09 10:32:28 +0000 |
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committer | Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-01-09 10:32:28 +0000 |
commit | a05d4502ac613b67f599ed5883ec094cb8d25e51 (patch) | |
tree | 4dcac69e1e2c98eccf14ba2022401b00680882e4 /lang | |
parent | 9f5ac9b62e8fcdd54715828de0874a830dce73af (diff) | |
download | ports-a05d4502ac613b67f599ed5883ec094cb8d25e51.tar.gz ports-a05d4502ac613b67f599ed5883ec094cb8d25e51.zip |
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-rw-r--r-- | lang/mawk/Makefile | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | lang/mawk/pkg-descr | 19 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/lang/mawk/Makefile b/lang/mawk/Makefile index 18af85b0e68e..12e0ba125c63 100644 --- a/lang/mawk/Makefile +++ b/lang/mawk/Makefile @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ MASTER_SITES= ftp://invisible-island.net/${PORTNAME}/ EXTRACT_SUFX= .tgz MAINTAINER= bapt@FreeBSD.org -COMMENT= Implementation of new/posix awk +COMMENT= Interpreter for the AWK Programming Language LICENSE= GPLv2 diff --git a/lang/mawk/pkg-descr b/lang/mawk/pkg-descr index 30240bcfc11a..f08661588634 100644 --- a/lang/mawk/pkg-descr +++ b/lang/mawk/pkg-descr @@ -1,11 +1,10 @@ -Version 1.3 implements a new internal design for arrays: +mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language. The AWK language is +useful for manipulation of data files, text retrieval and processing, and for +prototyping and experimenting with algorithms. mawk is a new awk meaning it +implements the AWK language as defined in Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger, The +AWK Programming Language, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1988 (hereafter referred +to as the AWK book.) mawk conforms to the Posix 1003.2 (draft 11.3) definition +of the AWK language which contains a few features not described in the AWK +book, and mawk provides a small number of extensions. -Extensive redesign of array data structures to support large arrays and -fast access to arrays created with split. Many of the ideas in the -new design were inspired by reading "The Design and Implementation of -Dynamic Hashing Sets and Tables in Icon" by William Griswold and -Gregg Townsend, SPE 23,351-367. - -Bug reports, comments, questions, etc. to -Mike Brennan, brennan@whidbey.com. -ftp site: ftp.whidbey.net in ~/pub/brennan +WWW: http://invisible-island.net/mawk |