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<sect2><title>Contents of mawk-&mawk-contversion;</title>

<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
<para>awk (link to mawk) and mawk</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>Descriptions</title>

<sect4><title>awk</title>
<para>awk is symlinked to mawk for programs which just look for any
generic awk.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>mawk</title>
<para>Mawk is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language. The AWK
language is useful for manipulation of data files, text retrieval and 
processing, and for prototyping and experimenting 
with algorithms.</para></sect4>

</sect3>

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