Yes, a missing awk was the problem: "which awk" and "which gawk" revealed no such command, so I installed gawk (which, thankfully, didn't have unmet dependencies) and am now proceeding with my selfupdate. ncurses has been installed; fink is now installing dpkg.
You may be in for some more surprises, because /usr/bin/awk should have been installed by the BaseSystem.pkg which, as its name suggests, is a basic part of OSX.
You might check whether other files in /usr/bin from this package are missing by running my bomcheck script as
bomcheck BaseSystem
The script is at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/fink/experimental/ costabel/bomcheck?rev=1.1
You would need to save it and make it executable (chmod +x bomcheck) or run it as "sh bomcheck".
-- Martin
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