1999-10-23 19:27:10 +00:00
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This is GNU Awk 3.0.4. It should be upwardly compatible with the Bell
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Labs research version of awk. It is almost completely compliant with
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the 1993 POSIX 1003.2 standard for awk. (See the note below about POSIX.)
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Patches 1 through 4 just fix bugs -- see NEWS and ChangeLog for details.
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See the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
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Known problems are given in the PROBLEMS file. Work to be done is
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described briefly in the FUTURES file. Verified ports are listed in
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the PORTS file. Changes in this version are summarized in the NEWS file.
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Please read the LIMITATIONS and ACKNOWLEDGMENT files.
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Read the file POSIX for a discussion of how the standard says comparisons
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should be done vs. how they really should be done and how gawk does them.
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To format the documentation with TeX, use at least version 2.151 of
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texinfo.tex. There is a usable copy of texinfo.tex in the doc directory.
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The Info file now comes with the distribution.
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The man page is up to date.
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