[plug] awk

[Ryan]

On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 15:20, Adam Hewitt wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to get the modem in my ibook to work with the linuxant
> drivers and I am getting an error stating that it requires awk version
> 3.1.0 or higher. I am running Debain Sid and from what I can see there
> is no awk package, only gawk and mawk.
> 
> Is there a way for me to convince this program that I am actually
> running awk 3.1.0 or does anyone have another idea on how I could go
> about doing this??

awk is a symlink via /etc/alternatives to gawk on most Debian systems.

to fix it quickly try symlinking /usr/bin/awk to /usr/bin/gawk

ln -s /usr/bin/gawk /usr/bin/awk

assuming gawk is the correct version?  gawk --version says what?

Ryan