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+mawk (fast awk implementation)
+
+mawk (Mike's AWK) is an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language. It's
+a very fast AWK implementation based on a bytecode interpreter. Originally
+written by Mike Brennan, mawk is currently maintained by Thomas E. Dickey.
+
+The AWK language is useful for manipulation of data files, text
+retrieval and processing, and for prototyping and experimenting with
+algorithms. mawk is a new awk meaning it implements the AWK language as
+defined in Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger, The AWK Programming Language,
+Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1988.
+
+mawk conforms to the Posix 1003.2 (draft 11.3) definition of the AWK
+language which contains a few features not described in the AWK book,
+and mawk provides a small number of extensions.
+
+This build does not conflict with Slackware's own awk (from the gawk
+package).