Re: gawk or nawk?

From: Thomas Mueller (tmueller_at_bluegrass.net)
Date: 10/24/03 

Date: 24 Oct 2003 06:18:13 GMT

Christos Zoulas <christos@tac.gw.com> wrote:
> In article <bm9mnf$d22$1@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es>,
> Igor Sobrado <sobrado@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es> wrote:
>
> There are lots of issues tht need to be solved for 2.0 and we don't want
> to open new ones ;-)

Igor Sobrado responded:

> Indeed, there will be a lot of new features in the next major release.
> I am awaiting for native threads to be in production releases of NetBSD!

> But I hope that changing gawk to nawk will not be dropped, it is a nice
> awk replacement for this operating system.

> Not being dropped as a change for a future release!!! I understand
> that there are a lot of important issues to be fixed for the next
> major release, and this one is not so urgent...

> Cheers,
> Igor.

Are there any plans for support for (removable media) hard disks having
sector size other than the normal 512 bytes? I am thinking in particular of
the Fujitsu DynaMO, where the newer, higher-capacity disks have sector size
2048 bytes. Urgent? Low-priority?

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