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mjc

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Dec 25, 2009, 3:47:42 PM12/25/09
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Is gawk (or a reasonable version of awk) available for Google's
Android? How about Nokia's N900?

It is available for Nokia's N810 (as part of busybox) and, I would
hope for the N900.

One of the main things that turn me off about the iPhone is that Apple
does not allow programming languages to run on it. That is one of the
reasons I like my Treo. Any future phone I get will have to have this
capability.

mjc

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Jan 1, 2010, 11:44:05 PM1/1/10
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Well, it looks like maybe it is. I did another Google search for "awk
android" and this was one of the results:

Downloading File: /43862/awk4j-1.6.1-android-src.zip - awk4j (AWK ...

When I followed the link, I got the file
awk4j-1.6.1-android-src.zip - when I unpacked it there were a number
of files including a directory called "Sample" with a number of awk
programs (with odd characters at the end of each line - I opened them
in emacs) and a files named "awk4jAndroid.apk" which is, I guess, awk
for Android (duh!).

I don't know how much I would need to know about Android development
to find out more, but I am somewhat encouraged.

Does anyone know more? I would like to have my ignorance reduced.

Thanks,

Martin Cohen

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