Well, I hate that packages that install man pages don't bother to run catman -w 
-M $dir
on the directory (and again when they're removed).

And I'm getting tired of /usr/bin/awk, /usr/bin/nawk, and even 
/usr/xpg4/bin/awk.
Once again, I run into their stupid limits.  Even the xpg4 one, that is at 
least more generous
than the other two, choked (it's called from /usr/lib/makewhatis).

# catman -w -M /usr/share/man 
awk: line 3 (NR=5115): Record too long (LIMIT: 19999 bytes)

Here's a little comparison I did way back when:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.solaris/msg/f920ecd9790ae334?dmode=source

gawk is one of the few GNU versions of utilities that I really like.  They took 
some reasonable
pains for compatibility, and it has for all practical purposes 
_no_line_length_limit_.

If gawk ends up in /usr/gnu/bin as awk, then /usr/lib/makewhatis probably ought 
to be
changed to find it first, which would avoid these problems (I just got my 
/usr/share/man/windex
built by changing a copy of the script to use gawk).
 
 
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