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The MKS toolkit is as you described, it's been around for ages. Like
almost 40 years. The awk from it became the POSIX awk in Solaris. [...]
[...][...]
Many years ago I tried to find out where the Mac OS_X Awk stems from.
Back then I could not find any hint on that.
Does anyone know what Awk version is/was the base of Apple's Awk?
At https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/awk you can then find the latest version (awk-40) on main and older versions on their own branch.
[...]
https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk</string>
So, macOS AWK appears to be BWK AWK.
Hope this helps.
On 27.02.2025 09:44, Aharon Robbins wrote:
The MKS toolkit is as you described, it's been around for ages. Like
almost 40 years. The awk from it became the POSIX awk in Solaris. [...]
Interesting. - BTW...
Many years ago I tried to find out where the Mac OS_X Awk stems from.
Back then I could not find any hint on that.
Does anyone know what Awk version is/was the base of Apple's Awk?
In article <m2eczjqj7k.fsf@bochannek.com>,
Alex Bochannek <alex@bochannek.com> wrote:
So, macOS AWK appears to be BWK AWK.
Indeed, it has been based on BWK awk for many years, but they tend to
lag behind it. awk --version on macos should give you some idea of what
they started with.
While poking around I found a MKS Toolkit which sounds very similar to
this and is a current offering from PTC (Parametric Technology Corp;
they mostly do CAD stuff).
So, macOS AWK appears to be BWK AWK.
In going through some old files, I found a zip file:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold ftpusers 18137948 Jun 12 2013 TAWKCompilerI.zip
It has PDFs and a text file documenting the use of tawk 5.0. I've
made it available for download at:
https://www.skeeve.com/TAWKCompilerI.zip
I have offered it to bitsavers.org, but haven't heard back yet from
them.
In article <67bd90eb$0$714$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>,
Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
In going through some old files, I found a zip file:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold ftpusers 18137948 Jun 12 2013 TAWKCompilerI.zip
It has PDFs and a text file documenting the use of tawk 5.0. I've
made it available for download at:
https://www.skeeve.com/TAWKCompilerI.zip
I have offered it to bitsavers.org, but haven't heard back yet from
them.
Interesting. Any idea where this came from?
Note, BTW, that the ".doc" file is not a text file. Presumably, it is an
MS Word document.
Described here:<http://www.tasoft.com/tawk.html> (last updated in
2003; I'm impressed that the website still exists).
"Thompson Automation Software has ceased actively selling software."
They also sold the "Thompson Toolkit", which apparently provided
UNIX-like shells and tools for DOS, OS/2, and Windows.
I see nothing indicating how their software can be obtained or how much
it would have cost.