Obtaining Awk and Perl

*Return to htmlchek documentation

This document gives a list of the versions of awk and Perl that are available for various platforms, in order to run htmlchek. I have not personally verified all these links; fortunately, several alternatives are provided in most cases (you can also try an archie search). Neither Awk nor Perl has a Windows-specific version, so that Windows users should get an MS-DOS port. (However, the MS-DOS version of Perl does include special Windows support.)

Availability of Awk

Gawk source distribution

From [email protected]  Thu May 19 14:30:56 1994
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 19 May 94 01:36 EDT
Subject: announcement of patch 5 to gawk 2.15

This is to announce the release of patch 5 for gawk version 2.15. Gawk (GNU awk) provides a superset of POSIX awk, a pattern scanning and data manipulation language. This version is available as gawk-2.15.5.tar.gz on the gnu archive sites.

Most GNU software is packed using the new `gzip' compression program.

For information on how to order GNU software on tape, floppy, or cd-rom, check the file etc/ORDERS in the GNU Emacs distribution or in GNUinfo/ORDERS on prep.ai.mit.edu, or e-mail a request to: [email protected]

Precompiled Gawk binaries, other Awk versions, etc.

Availability of Perl

From: [email protected] (Neil Bowers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Perl Meta-FAQ v1.4
Date: 2 Feb 1995 07:45:04 GMT
Organization: Khoral Research, Inc.
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

                            Perl Meta-FAQ
                  Version 1.4 - December 28 1994
                        [email protected]

Where can I get Perl 4.036? [Source code]

Perl 4.036 ports

For MS-DOS, Mac, Windows-NT, VMS, Amiga, OS/2, Atari, LynxOS, MVS, MPE, Xenix, Netware

Where can I get Perl 5?

Perl on the World Wide Web (WWW)