Notes for the 'oawk' utility
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Based on 4.4BSD old awk, the following changes were made:

- Support for LC_CTYPE (especially multibyte characters).
- Support for LC_COLLATE (when comparing string variables).
- Support for LC_TIME (radix character).
- No limit on the length of input and output lines anymore.
- No limit on the maximum number of fields per record.

Since no Open Source lex implementation is able to process multibyte
characters, it was not possible to retain the regular expression lexer.
Regular expressions are thus handled by the 'Unix Regular Expression
Library', which was modified to handle the traditional awk expression
as well. Please contact me if you still find differences.

	Gunnar Ritter						4/29/03
