Hello

I burnt myself hot when upgrading a pre NetBSD 2 box because awk regressed. 
This caused chaos in a few administrative shell scripts.

Here is the problem:

# Works on 2.x, not on 3.x
awk -vf=x 'BEGIN {print f}' /dev/null
# Works on any release
awk -v f=x 'BEGIN {print f}' /dev/null

The problem is rather old, but it's not a reason for not handling it. 
Did someone give it a try in the past?

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@netbsd.org