From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 13 18:23:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA00533 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 18:23:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abc.xyz.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00526 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 18:23:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abc.xyz.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA04840 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 06:06:27 -0900 (AKST) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 06:06:26 -0900 (AKST) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@abc.xyz.net To: freebsd-questions Subject: gawk Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG why isn't gawk 3.03 the default /usr/bin version of awk that is shipped with FBSD? i am aware that is available as a package, but why isn't it the default? it has been out for a few years now, fixes many bugs over the current 2.15 default, isn't much bigger, has a lot of better features, etc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message