> I felt i could get away with gawk, because the larger part of the > community considers gawk as _the_ awk.
Maybe you should change what community you form part. > It seems to me, even the creators of awk are endorsing gawk over other > implementations. The smell is there, maybe posix awk is dead? I don't think so. Take a look to 'http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/index.html', the place where you can download The One True Awk of Kernighan, whose last version is less of two year ago. > Gawk on the other hand is under active development. Maybe you could say it is under continue blow proccess. Regards, -- Roberto E. Vargas Caballero