>Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:01:25 -0700
>From: "Garrett D'Amore" <gdamore at sun.com>
>
>Shouldn't the Human Readable Output really be Not-An-Interface?
>
Garrett,
No. The output produced by gawk (and igawk and pgawk) is
precisely defined by the program that you feed it. Since gawk output
isn't constrained by SVID3 (like awk, nawk, and oawk) nor by XPG4, SUS,
SUSv2, and SUSv3 (like xpg4/bin/awk), the output is marked as Volatile
rather than Committed (nee Standard).
Whether or not the output of the awk script is machine
parseable is up to the script's author.
- Don
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