WHAT'S NEW?

Mar 01: Michael Sanders demos an X-windows GUI for AWK.

Mar 01: Awk100#24: A. Lahm and E. de Rinaldis' patent search, in AWK

Feb 28: Tim Menzies asks this community to write an AWK cookbook.

Feb 28: Arnold Robbins announces a new debugger for GAWK.

Feb 28: Awk100#23: Premysl Janouch offers a IRC bot, In AWK

Feb 28: Updated: the AWK FAQ

Feb 28: Tim Menzies offers a tiny content management system, in Awk.

Jan 31: Comment system added to awk.info. For example, see discussion bottom of ?keys2awk

Jan 31: Martin Cohen shows that Gawk can handle massively long strings (300 million characters).

Jan 31: The AWK FAQ is being updated. For comments/ corrections/ extensions, please mail tim@menzies.us

Jan 31: Martin Cohen finds Awk on the Android platform.

Jan 31: Aleksey Cheusov released a new version of runawk.

Jan 31: Hirofumi Saito contributes a candidate Awk mascot.

Jan 31: Michael Sanders shows how to quickly build an AWK GUI for windows.

Jan 31: Hyung-Hwan Chung offers QSE, an embeddable Awk Interpreter.

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categories: Who,Feb,2009,Admin

Great Auks: awk.info's ringmasters

Some must lead, some must follow, and some have to fix the typos.

A Great Auk is someone with write permission to our repository. Since the source for this web site is stored in that repoistory, it also means that they are webmasters of this site. So they (try) to:

1. keep the code and pages in a (somewhat) consistent form,
2. encourage code documentation and test suites,
3. watch comp.lang.awk for cool stuff to add to this site,
4. write little demo programs,
5. handle queries about this site,
6. work the issue reports,
7. etc.

If you want to be a Great Auk, please start contributing to this site using any of the usual methods. Once it is clear that you know what you are doing and that you play nice with others, then you should ask a current Great Auk to nominate you. Then, all the current Great Auks will vote about giving your write access.

The current Great Auks are

• Jim Hart
• Tim Menzies