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Re: awk usage message

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Tue Jul 12 15:05:01 1988

From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: <qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, rt-testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: <rt-testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 12 Jul 88 14:52:48 -0400.
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 88 15:04:11 EDT


a) please report bugs in RT test releases to rt-testers@athena.mit.edu
(so the rest of the people using the test release know there's a
problem).


> % awk
> awk: Usage: awk [-f source | 'cmds'] [files]
> Exit 2               awk
> 
> 
> This usage messages does not mention the -F option.  Perhaps the right
> usage message is something like
> 
> awk: Usage: awk [-Fc] [-f source | 'cmds'] [files]

Do you have any indication that the -F option is supported *at all* in
this version of awk?  

-- Henry
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