diff --git a/vfs/ChangeLog b/vfs/ChangeLog
index c423b997d..652ab20c7 100644
--- a/vfs/ChangeLog
+++ b/vfs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2001-02-23  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
 
+	* extfs/lslR (mclslRfs_list): Don't use gawk-specific features.
+	Don't hardcode gawk. Don't rely on the date format occupying a
+	fixed number of fields.
+
 	* extfs/uzip.in (mczipfs_list): Don't check zipinfo support on
 	the real file - check usage info instead. Use more robust checks
 	for valid lines. Suppress stderr from unzip. Workaround for jar
diff --git a/vfs/extfs/lslR.in b/vfs/extfs/lslR.in
index b9ce95d1c..61e26e936 100644
--- a/vfs/extfs/lslR.in
+++ b/vfs/extfs/lslR.in
@@ -15,21 +15,23 @@ case "$1" in
   *)	MYCAT="$CAT";;
 esac
 
-$MYCAT "$1" | gawk '
+$MYCAT "$1" | @AWK@ '
 BEGIN { dir="" }
 /^total\ [0-9]*$/ { next }
 /^$/ { next }
-/^[^[:blank:]].*:$/ {
+/^[^ 	].*:$/ {
   if ($0 ~ /^\//) dir=substr($0, 2);
   else dir=$0;
   if (dir ~ /\/:$/) sub(/:$/, "", dir);
   else sub(/:$/, "/", dir);
   next;
 }
-{ 
-  printf "%s %3d %-8s %-8s %8d %3s %2d %5s %s", $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, dir
-  for (i=1; i<9; i++) sub("[^[:blank:]]+[[:blank:]]+", "");
-  printf "%s\n", $0
+/:/ {
+  # gensub is not portable.
+  name=$0
+  sub(/^[^:]+:[^ 	]+[ 	]+/, "", name)
+  attr=substr($0, 1, length($0)-length(name))
+  printf "%s%s%s\n", attr, dir, name
 }' 2>/dev/null
 }