> There have been many fixes to BWK's code since then. If you're going to > start over, it should be done from his current code, available from > his Princeton home page.
9atom's awk has been updated with bwk's recent source. it also has a fix for the problem sometimes seen with plan 9 installs where a score looks enough like floating point that awk tries to treat it as such and gets a fp exception in the process. i would consider adding pure extensions, such as %C, or the ability to deal with hex. - erik