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authorArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2011-02-27 08:02:24 +0200
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- Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011
+ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
@@ -6,11 +7,11 @@
README:
-This is GNU Awk 3.1.77. It is upwardly compatible with the Bell Labs
+This is GNU Awk 3.1.81. It is upwardly compatible with the Bell Labs
research version of awk. It is almost completely compliant with the
-2004 POSIX 1003.1 standard for awk. (See the note below about POSIX.)
+2008 POSIX 1003.1 standard for awk. (See the note below about POSIX.)
-This is a bug fix release. See NEWS and ChangeLog for details.
+This is a major new release. See NEWS and ChangeLog for details.
Work to be done is described briefly in the FUTURES file. Changes in this
version are summarized in the NEWS file. Please read the LIMITATIONS file.
@@ -34,12 +35,8 @@ generated with bison, and has no proprietary code in it. (Note that
modifying awkgram.y without bison or yacc will be difficult, at best.
You might want to get a copy of bison from the FSF too.)
-If you have a Windows32, MS-DOS or OS/2 system, use the stuff in the `pc'
-directory. Similarly, there is a separate directory for VMS and for
-some other operating systems.
-
-Ports for the Atari and old Tandem systems are supplied, but they are
-unsupported. Thus, their code appears in the `unsupported' directory.
+If you have an MS-DOS or OS/2 system, use the stuff in the `pc'
+directory. Similarly, there is a separate directory for VMS.
Appendix B of ``GAWK: Effective Awk Programming'' discusses configuration
in detail. The configuration process is based on GNU Autoconf and