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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.
- ------------------------
- 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
- ntomczak@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca
- michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca
-