Urban Boquist wrote:

> Hmmm, are you saying that they must have GNU sed and that nbsed is not
> enough?  Recent bootstrap kits will install nbsed automatically on
> Solaris.

Yes.

> Which packages have you seen breaking because of awk? Maybe awk
> should also should be installed by the bootstrap.

Errrrr.... The one I remember for sure is databases/db4 because
that's the one where I finally found the "solution." I'll *try*
to put together a small list next week.

Cheers, Rob.
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