diff --git a/bin/runawk b/bin/runawk
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+#!/bin/sh
+# A wrapper which executes runawk.
+
+if [ -z $RUNAWK_HOME ]
+then
+    bindir=`dirname $0`
+    RUNAWK_HOME=`dirname $bindir`
+fi
+
+if [ -z $AWKPATH ] || [ $# -lt 1 ]
+then
+    echo <<USAGE
+    Usage: $0 <awk command line>
+
+    For $0 to work properly, a GNU compatible AWKPATH must be set.
+USAGE
+fi
+
+echo BUILD_COMMAND=1 awk -f $RUNAWK_HOME/src/runawk.awk "$@"
diff --git a/src/runawk.awk b/src/runawk.awk
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+# A simple runawk-style boot strapper.
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 43) borrowed from FreeBSD's jail.c:
+# <tag@cpan.org> wrote this file.  As long as you retain this notice you
+# can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think
+# this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return.   Scott S. McCoy
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# This utility (which can either be bootstrapped by a shell script, called from
+# the commandline or used as a dependency) is intended to eliminate the
+# duplication in the AMS kernel, by using a run-awk style bootstrapping method.
+# This allows the kernel itself to use other parts of the codebase as
+# dependencies, and still allows this very dependency handling code to be used
+# by the kernel itself.
+
+function readable (file     ,result,x) {
+    result = getline x < file
+    close(file)
+
+    return result >= 0
+}
+
+function find (filename     ,r,i) {
+    for (i = 1; i <= pathc; i++) {
+        r = pathv[i] "/" filename
+
+        if (readable(r)) {
+            return r
+        }
+    }
+
+    print "error: unable to find file " filename >> "/dev/stderr"
+    exit 1
+}
+
+## Parse a file and determine all of it's dependencies, and theirs,
+# recursively.
+function dependencies (filename     ,loaded,input,df,depends) {
+    loaded[filename] = 1
+
+    depends = ""
+
+    while ((getline input < filename) > 0) {
+        if (input ~ /^#use/) {
+            split(input, words, /[\t ][\t ]*/)
+            print "loading module " words[2] >> "/dev/stderr"
+            df = find(words[2])
+
+            if (loaded[df] != 1) {
+                depends = depends " -f " df
+                depends = depends dependencies(df, loaded)
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    close(filename)
+
+    return depends
+}
+
+BEGIN {
+    if (ENVIRON["BUILD_COMMAND"]) {
+        
+    }
+}