Atari Mega Archive 1/Atari Mega Archive - Volume 1.iso/gnu/gawk/gawk215b.zoo/README

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This archive contains ST binaries of GNU Awk 2.15.2.  This software
falls under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.  Binaries were compiled
with TOS libraries under assumption that MiNT users know which is
a business end of a compiler. :-)  This means, in particular,
that pipes are simulated and there are other small differences
as well.

Since sources of gawk compile in an unmodified form on Atari ST with
gcc compiler they are not included here.  Full distribution is quite
sizeable and contains also pretty big manual (over 200 pages long).
It is available from your usual places which carry GNU software -
- prep.ai.mit.edu in particular.

Included formatted man-page is a generic Unix.  Use some imagination
and better get a full manual.  Gawk on ST accepts also ',' (comma)
as path separator and elements of path can be divided both by
slashes and backslashes.

Note about recompilation.
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Gawk compiles correctly on ST both with and without -mshort flag (16
bit wide integers), so it should be possible to compile it with
various other compilers as well.  On the other hand, a correct
compilation relies heavily on a presence of prototypes and I would be
surprised if a compilation would be possible on non-ANSI compiler with
ints of not the same width as longs.

If you will decide to recompile gawk, say for MiNT, be aware that this
version of gawk revealed a presence of a bug in fwrite() function
from gcc libraries.  Either wait for the corrected version of
libraries or, if you are in a hurry, contact me, please.
In time of this writing TOS libraries were on PatchLevel 90 and
MiNT libraries on PatchLevel 32.

  Michal Jaegermann
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