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- This is ST variant of GNU awk (gawk) 2.13 distribution -
- a pattern scanning and processing language.
-
- This archive contains only Atari executables of gawk 2.13.2, compiled
- with gcc 1.40, some test/examples programs and a basic documentation.
-
- Between the previously available version 2.11 (2.12 was a work version
- and was never officially released) and the current one gawk changed by
- loosing (some) bugs and aquiring new features like FIELDWIDTH and time
- functions. Check your man page. For details see CHANGES file in
- a full source distribution. ST variant follows this good example.:-)
-
- Sources are distributed as an accompanying archive gawk213s.zoo
- (without rather big test subdirectory). A full distribution is
- available from prep.mit.edu and many other file servers which carry
- FSF software. There is no special Atari ST source modification. An
- "official" distribution contains everything you need to configure and
- compile it on many different machines - mostly Un*x, but not only.
- This time ST is one of entries on this list - in a company of Cray.
- It would help immensly if a compiler you are plannig to use for a
- possible recompilation would support the ANSI Standard. Otherwise you
- may expect a hunt for all places where stack alignment can get
- out-of-kilter. This is a fair warning.
-
- A full manual (around 200 pages) is not ready yet in times of this
- writing and it should be available sometimes in the end of August
- 1991. Sources for manual are using texinfo.tex macro package for TeX.
- If you have only a slight, or none, idea what is that you are well
- advised to order a printed copy from
-
- Free Software Foundation
- 675 Massachusetts Avenue,
- Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
-
- For $10 a handsome copy (a price for the previous manual version)
- this is a bargain even if you are a TeX wizard. A book "The AWK
- Programming Language", by A. Aho, P. Weinberger and B. Kernighan,
- 1988, ISBN 0-201-07981-X, can be ordered from Addison-Wesley
- publishing company.
-
- Enjoy,
- Michal Jaegermann
- ntomczak@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca
-