[plug] awk

[Adam Hewitt]

Well you guys are all legends, and I now have an almost fully functional
debian iBook (now including the modem)...I think a Howto will be coming
shortly.

Adam.

On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 15:24, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <1062573640.609.415.camel at phoenix>
> on Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:20:40PM +0800, Adam Hewitt wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> gawk can be made to run as awk (e.g. --compat or --traditional), but I'm
> surprised that you don't have awk as a symlink to gawk anyway (I think
> gawk runs in compatability mode if it's invoked as awk).
> 
> > 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??
> 
> I have no idea how you could possible have gawk older than 3.1.0.
> Sounds like a path (or $PATH) problem.
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