386/ix V2.0.2 breaks awk

[Larry Campbell]

A few weeks ago, I upgraded my 386/ix system from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2, and one of
my nightly news administration scripts broke.  The problem is caused by a
bug in nawk, which in 2.0.2 seems to have become the standard awk.  The
following examples demonstrate the bug:

oawk is OK:

% echo 'foo
> bar
> zot' |
> oawk '
> ! ( /foo/ || /bar/ ) { printf "%s: no foo or bar here\n", $0 }
> '
zot: no foo or bar here
% 

but nawk barfs:

% echo 'foo
> bar
> zot' |
> nawk '
> ! ( /foo/ || /bar/ ) { printf "%s: no foo or bar here\n", $0 }
> '
awk: syntax error at source line 2
 context is
	! ( >>>  / <<< foo/ || /bar/ ) { printf "%s: no foo or bar here\n", $0 }
awk: bailing out at source line 2


I wonder if this is AT&T's fault or ISC's?  (I reported the bug to ISC two
weeks ago and have not received an acknowledgement...)
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