Whether or not you consider yourself a programmer, the very fact that you use Risc OS suggests that you are probably an active user of your computer, and hence that you are likely to find Awk a useful tool. The name is an acronym of its original inventors, Aho, Weinberger and Kernighan. The original version of Awk was created in 1977 at AT&T Bell Laboratories, as a tool for extracting information from text. It was intended for relatively simple tasks that could be described in a couple of lines. Its simplicity made it so popular that people tried to use it for more ambitious tasks, and this led to a major revision in 1985, extending its capabilities to that of a fullyfledged programming language without sacrifice of its simplicity. It is now a standard part of every Unix distribution. zip archive mawk The package downloadable here contains three files: mawk a binary file that you should put in Boot.Library or somewhere that your Run$Path variable points to, mawk1html, an HTML manual for it and COPYING the

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