On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Philip Webb wrote:
> (red face) yes, i should have known, having just got the gawk package,
> which includes advice for many platforms. however, for `pc' it says:
>
> Building on DOS or Windows environments can be troublesome ...
>
> it's not impossible, but in the context of providing tables support
> for ordinary DOS/Windows users, gawk may not be a sensible approach.
> this week, i have replied to a couple of inquiries from Lynx beginners
> who obtained the wrong package & had no idea how to proceed;
Yes. If awk were to be important to using lynx, instructions on how to
set it up would have to be in the README file. Precompiled binaries
are readily available for DOS. I (and others who distribute the
binary) would probably want to include the binary with lynx in the
package (as I already do with sed, mv, cat, etc.).
Doug
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