Subject: Re: problem with .PLIST-generating awk scripts
To: None <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/23/2006 09:09:53
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:

> > it seems nawk does not understand 'delete vars' or 'delete components'.
> > After commenting out the three occurrences things seem to work fine. Is
> > this some gawkism?
>
> Well, the scripts worked fine on DragonFly, which is using the-one-true-awk(TM).

Wow, DragonFly doesn't even use nawk?

(Cynicism explanation:  "the-one-true-awk" predates nawk, and is missing
some features present in nawk.  Some OS's still use a pre-nawk dialect in
the OS-supplied awk program.)

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