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From: pvo@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill)
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Subject: Re: 'awk' test for file existance fails with nawk and gawk
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Date: 3 Mar 91 04:10:23 GMT
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In article <DJM.91Feb24003452@egypt.eng.umd.edu> djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) writes:
>In pl44 Configure does thus:
>
>echo "First let's make sure your kit is complete.  Checking..."
>(cd ..; awk '' `awk '$1 !~ /PACKINGLIST/ {print $1}' MANIFEST` >/dev/null || kill $$)
>echo "Looks good..."
>

[WARNING, AS AN AWK ILLITERATE, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS IS ABOUT.
  I DID FIND THE SOLUTION, THOUGH!]

Then, of course, there's:

	Beginning of configuration questions for perl kit.
 
	First let's make sure your kit is complete.  Checking...
	awk: can't open MANIFEST
	[infinite freeze]

Solution: (This is on a NeXT 2.0 system)

	rmdir ../UU


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