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mawk

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mawk  \Mawk\,  n.  [OE.  mauk,  ma?ek,  Icel.  ma?kr;  akin  to  Dan. 
  maddik  and  E.  mad  an  earthworm.  See  {Mad},  n.] 
  1.  A  maggot.  [Scot.] 
 
  2.  A  slattern;  a  mawks.  [Prov.  Eng.] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  mawk 
 
    An  faster  implementation  of  {nawk}  written  by 
  Mike  Brennan  at  Boeing  in  1991  and  distributed  under  {GPL}  but 
  distinct  from  {GNU}'s  {gawk}. 
 
  Interpreter  version  1.1.3  has  been  ported  to  {Sun-3}, 
  {Sun-4}/{SunOS}  4.0.3;  {Vax}/{BSD}  4.3,  {ULTRIX}  4.1; 
  {Stardent}  3000/{SYSV}R3;  {DECStation}/{ULTRIX}  4.1, 
  {MS-DOS}/{Turbo  C++}. 
 
  {(ftp://oxy.edu/public/mawk)}. 
 
  (2000-05-04)




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