Carol Fields writes: > > The question is this: why does the GNU user see 'awk' as expected, > > without having to type 'g' to get it, but then has to add in a > > superfluous 'g' in order to access those other two variants? > > > > Is this inconsistent layout (with "awk" plus "[ip]gawk") common on > > other GNU distributions? > > Yes, on Ubuntu, /usr/bin/igawk and /usr/bin/pgawk are installed, and > there is no /usr/bin/iawk nor /usr/bin/pawk.
*boggle* OK; if that's what users really expect, then I guess I don't care so much. Seems like an error to me ... -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
