| 1 | README:
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| 2 |
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| 3 | This is GNU Awk 3.1.5. It is upwardly compatible with the Bell Labs
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| 4 | research version of awk. It is almost completely compliant with the
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| 5 | 1993 POSIX 1003.2 standard for awk. (See the note below about POSIX.)
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| 6 |
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| 7 | This is a bug fix release. See NEWS and ChangeLog for details.
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| 8 |
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| 9 | Work to be done is described briefly in the FUTURES file. Changes in this
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| 10 | version are summarized in the NEWS file. Please read the LIMITATIONS file.
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| 11 |
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| 12 | Read the file POSIX.STD for a discussion of how the standard says
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| 13 | comparisons should be done vs. how they really should be done and how
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| 14 | gawk does them.
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| 15 |
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| 16 | To format the documentation with TeX, use at least version 2000-10-27.17
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| 17 | of texinfo.tex. There is a usable copy of texinfo.tex in the doc directory.
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| 18 |
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| 19 | INSTALLATION:
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| 20 |
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| 21 | Check whether there is a system-specific README file for your system under
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| 22 | the `README_d' directory. If there's something there that you should
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| 23 | have read and didn't, and you bug me about it, I'm going to yell at you.
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| 24 |
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| 25 | See the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
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| 26 |
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| 27 | If you have neither bison nor yacc, use the awkgram.c file here. It was
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| 28 | generated with bison, and has no proprietary code in it. (Note that
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| 29 | modifying awkgram.y without bison or yacc will be difficult, at best.
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| 30 | You might want to get a copy of bison from the FSF too.)
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| 31 |
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| 32 | If you have a Windows32, MS-DOS or OS/2 system, use the stuff in the `pc'
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| 33 | directory. Similarly, there is a separate directory for VMS.
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| 34 |
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| 35 | Ports for the Atari and Tandem are supplied, but they are unsupported.
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| 36 | Thus, their code appears in the `unsupported' directory.
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| 37 |
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| 38 | Appendix B of ``GAWK: Effective Awk Programming'' discusses configuration
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| 39 | in detail. The configuration process is based on GNU Autoconf and
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| 40 | Automake.
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| 41 |
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| 42 | After successful compilation, do `make check' to run the test suite.
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| 43 | There should be no output from the `cmp' invocations except in the
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| 44 | cases where there are small differences in floating point values, and
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| 45 | possibly in the case of strftime. Several of the tests ignore errors
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| 46 | on purpose; those are not a problem. If there are other differences,
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| 47 | please investigate and report the problem.
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| 48 |
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| 49 | PRINTING THE MANUAL
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| 50 |
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| 51 | The `doc' directory contains a recent version of texinfo.tex, which will
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| 52 | be necessary for printing the manual. Use `make dvi' to get a DVI file
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| 53 | from the manual. In the `doc' directory, use `make postscript' to get
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| 54 | PostScript versions of the manual, the man page, and the reference card.
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| 55 |
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| 56 | BUG REPORTS AND FIXES (Un*x systems):
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| 57 |
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| 58 | Please coordinate changes through Arnold Robbins. In particular, see
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| 59 | the section in the manual on reporting bugs. Note that comp.lang.awk
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| 60 | is about the worst place to post a gawk bug report. Please, use the
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| 61 | mechanisms outlined in the manual.
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| 62 |
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| 63 | Email should be sent to bug-gawk@gnu.org. This address sends mail to
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| 64 | Arnold Robbins and the general GNU utilities bug list. The advantage
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| 65 | to using this address is that bug reports are archived at GNU Central.
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| 66 |
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| 67 | Arnold Robbins
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| 68 |
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| 69 | BUG REPORTS AND FIXES, non-Unix systems:
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| 70 |
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| 71 | Amiga:
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| 72 | Fred Fish
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| 73 | fnf@ninemoons.com
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| 74 |
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| 75 | Alpha/Linux:
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| 76 | Michal Jaegermann
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| 77 | michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca
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| 78 |
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| 79 | BeOS:
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| 80 | Martin Brown
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| 81 | mc@whoever.com
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| 82 |
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| 83 | MS-DOS:
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| 84 | Scott Deifik
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| 85 | scottd@amgen.com
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| 86 |
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| 87 | Darrel Hankerson
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| 88 | hankedr@mail.auburn.edu
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| 89 |
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| 90 | MS-Windows:
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| 91 | Juan Grigera
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| 92 | juan@biophnet.unlp.edu.ar
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| 93 |
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| 94 | OS/2:
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| 95 | andreas.buening@@nexgo.de
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| 96 |
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| 97 | Tandem:
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| 98 | Stephen Davies
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| 99 | scldad@sdc.com.au
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| 100 |
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| 101 | VMS:
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| 102 | Pat Rankin
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| 103 | rankin@pactechdata.com
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