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+This is the README for GNU awk 3.1 under Windows32, OS/2, and DOS.
+
+ Gawk has been compiled and tested under OS/2, DOS, and Windows32 using
+the GNU development tools from DJ Delorie (DJGPP; DOS with special
+support for long filenames under Win95), Eberhard Mattes (EMX; OS/2,
+DOS, and Windows32 with rsxnt), and Jan-Jaap van der Heijden and Mumit Khan
+(Mingw32; Windows32). Microsoft Visual C/C++ can be used to build a Windows32
+version for Windows 9x/NT, and MSC can be used to build 16-bit versions
+for DOS and OS/2. (As of 3.1.2, the MSC version doesn't work, but the
+maintainer for it is working on fixing it.)
+
+ The cygwin environment (http://www.cygwin.com) may also be used
+to compile and run gawk under Windows. For cygwin, building and
+installation is the same as under Unix:
+
+ tar -xvpzf gawk-3.1.x.tar.gz
+ cd gawk-3.1.x
+ ./configure && make
+
+The `configure' step takes a long time, but works otherwise.
+
+******************************** N O T E **********************************
+* The `|&' operator only works when gawk is compiled for cygwin. Neither *
+* socket support nor two-way pipes work in any other Windows environment! *
+***************************************************************************
+
+Building gawk
+-------------
+
+Building on DOS or Windows environments can be troublesome, in part due
+to shell limitations, the long filename issue, and various Windows32 pipe
+considerations. The situation is somewhat better on OS/2. The general
+recommendation is to use tools (especially make) which are compatible
+or built with the compiler to be used on gawk.
+
+Building versions which do not understand long filenames on systems
+that offer long names is a special case. The maintainers unpack the
+distribution and process using utilities (unzip, make, cmp) which do not
+use long filenames. (For example, the djgpp tools will work if LFN=n is
+set in the environment.)
+
+Copy the files in the `pc' directory (EXCEPT for `ChangeLog') to the
+directory with the rest of the gawk sources. (The subdirectories of
+`pc' need not be copied.) The makefile contains a configuration
+section with comments, and may need to be edited in order to work
+with your make utility.
+
+The "prefix" line in the Makefile is used during the install of gawk
+(and in building igawk.bat and igawk.cmd). Since the libraries for
+gawk will be installed under $(prefix)/lib/awk (e.g., /gnu/lib/awk),
+it is convenient to have this directory in DEFPATH of config.h.
+
+The makefile contains a number of targets for building various DOS and
+OS/2 versions. A list of targets will be printed if the make command is
+given without a target. As an example, to build gawk using the djgpp
+tools, enter "make djgpp".
+
+
+Testing and installing gawk
+---------------------------
+
+The command "make test" (and possibly "make install") requires several
+Unix-like tools, including an sh-like shell, sed, cp, and cmp. Only
+dmake and GNU make are known to work on "make test".
+
+There are two methods for the install: Method 1 uses a typical Unix-like
+approach and requires cat, cp, mkdir, sed, and sh; method 2 uses gawk
+and batch files. See the configuration section of the makefile.
+
+The file test/Makefile will need some editing (especially for DOS). A
+sample makefile with comments appears in pc/Makefile.tst, and can be
+used to modify test/Makefile for your platform. In addition, some
+files in the test directory may need to have their end-of-line markers
+converted, as described in Makefile.tst.
+
+As with building gawk, the OS, shell, and long filename issues come into
+play when testing, too. If you are testing gawk on a LFN aware system with
+some LFN aware tools, you may have problems if the shell that you specify in
+test/Makefile is not LFN aware. This problem will apply whether or not
+you are building a LFN aware gawk. See the comments in pc/Makefile.tst
+for more information on this.
+
+It is routine to install by hand, but note that the install target also
+builds igawk.bat and igawk.cmd, which are used to add an include
+facility to gawk (and which require sh).
+
+
+Notes
+-----
+
+1. Collections containing gawk and various utilities for OS/2 or DOS
+include the GNUish Project, Rommel's OS/2 collection at LEO, and the
+djgpp collection.
+
+The GNUish Project was designed to bring GNU-like programs to small
+systems running OS/2 and DOS. Binary distributions of gawk are
+maintained in GNUish, and include 16bit OS/2 and DOS, 32bit djgpp,
+and Windows32 versions. Information on GNUish is available via
+
+ http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/
+or
+ ftp://ftp.simtel.net/simtelnet/gnu/gnuish
+
+Documentation appears in gnuish.htm (html) or gnuish.inf (info).
+
+Kai Uwe Rommel <rommel@leo.org> maintains a (mostly OS/2) collection at
+
+ http://www.leo.org/archiv/os2 or ftp://ftp.leo.org
+
+It contains emx-compiled (32bit) versions of gawk for OS/2, DOS, and Windows32,
+along with many OS/2 utilities.
+
+The djgpp collection at
+
+ ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/
+
+contains a djgpp-compiled (32bit) version of gawk, along with many
+djgpp-compiled utilities.
+
+The Mingw32 collection at http://www.mingw.org contains links to ported
+software. The site by Jan-Jaap van der Heijden
+
+ http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/
+
+is apparently no longer maintained, but it was accessible as of Jan 2001
+and may contain files of interest.
+
+
+2. The following table illustrates some of the differences among the various
+compiled versions of gawk. For example, the djgpp version runs on all the
+systems, but with differing capabilities: it supports long filenames under
+Win-9x but not under NT, and it runs as a DPMI application under OS/2 (which
+translates into "works in the DOS-box under OS/2, but not as a true OS/2
+application").
+
+ DOS Win/WfW Win9x NT OS/2
+ -------------------------------------------------------
+ djgpp | DPMI DPMI DPMI DPMI,NoLFN DPMI
+ emx(1) | N N N N OS2
+ emxbnd(2) | VCPI,DPMI DPMI DPMI,NoLFN DPMI,NoLFN DPMI,OS2
+ emxnt(3) | N N Windows32 Windows32 N
+ msc(4) | 16 16 16,NoLFN 16,NoLFN 16,DOS
+ msc6bnd | 16 16 16,NoLFN 16,NoLFN 16,DOS,OS2
+ msc6os2 | N N N N 16,OS2
+ vcWin32 | N N Windows32 Windows32 N
+ mingw32 | N N Windows32 Windows32 N
+
+ (1) Requires emxrt.
+
+ (2) May run as a DPMI app in plain DOS and in a DOS-shell under OS/2
+ or Windows, and as a true OS/2 application under OS/2. DPMI
+ requires rsxnt, and VCPI or use as an OS/2 app requires emxrt.
+
+ (3) Requires rsxnt.
+
+ (4) When compiling, MSC 8, when run in Windows 9x, will require that if
+ files are listed in #include statements with LFNs
+ (eg. <patchlevel.h>), that the file be named with the LFN.
+
+ 16 16bit; limited capacity, especially under DOS.
+
+ DOS Runs as a DOS application.
+
+ DPMI Dos Protected Mode Interface; program runs as a DOS application.
+ Under plain DOS, a DPMI server (such as csdpmi from the djgpp
+ archives) is required. See also VCPI.
+
+ emxrt The emx runtime, available from LEO.
+
+ N Not supported.
+
+ NoLFN No long filename support.
+
+ OS2 Runs as an OS/2 application.
+
+ rsxnt Runtimes for use with DPMI or Windows32.
+
+ VCPI Virtual Control Program Interface; program runs as a DOS app.
+ Memory managers (such as emm386) may need adjustment. VCPI cannot
+ be used under OS/2, Win/WfW, Win-95, or NT. See also DPMI.
+
+Windows32 Uses/supports Windows32 features (such as long filenames).
+
+Reportedly, NTEmacs (another Windows32 program) can run programs such as
+Windows32-gawk asynchronously. Similarly, as native OS/2 versions are a
+plus under OS/2 even for command-line programs, native Windows32 versions
+may be desired under NT and Win95.
+
+Users interested in Windows32 applications may also wish to examine the
+Cygnus cygwin project at http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ or the
+Mingw32 work at http://www.mingw.org. Windows32 gawk will often require
+that utilities run from within gawk be Windows32 (e.g., the tests place this
+requirement on the cat utility).
+
+
+3. An sh-like shell may be useful for awk programming (and is essential
+for running "make test"). Stewartson's sh (OS/2 and DOS) is a good
+choice, and may be found in GNUish.
+
+Stewartson's shell uses a configuration file (see "Command Line Building"
+in the sh manual page), and it may be necessary to edit the entry for
+gawk. The following entries are suggested:
+
+ -- $(EXTENDED_LINE) -- -- Comment only, not part of file --
+ gawk = unix ignoretype # emxbnd
+ gawk = unix # djgpp; msc* with Stewartson's stdargv
+ # No entry for emx or for msc* without stdargv
+ gawk = ignoretype # if you want something which which always work
+ # --but without the use of @-include files.
+
+However, users of djgpp versions of gawk may prefer "dos" over "unix"
+in the above, due to the way djgpp handles @-include files. Entries
+for other other utilities (such as sed and wc) may need to be edited
+in order to match your specific collection of programs.
+
+Daisuke Aoyama <jack@st.rim.or.jp> has ported Bash 1.14.7 to djgpp.
+This version worked flawlessly in tests with djgpp gawk and make. bash
+is now part of the djgpp collection; the older port may be found on
+
+ http://www.neongenesis.com/~jack/djgpp-work/beta/index.html
+
+Under OS/2, bash should be a good choice; however, there has been some
+trouble getting a solid version. As of Feb-95, there are two bash ports,
+available at LEO under shells/gnu/.
+
+LEO also contains a Korn shell (ksh), tcsh, zsh, and a demo of
+Hamilton's C shell, but these have not been tested with gawk by the
+maintainers. Reports are welcomed.
+
+Users of the emx versions of gawk may wish to set EMXSHELL, which
+overrides COMSPEC when running shells from emx programs. Similarly,
+the djgpp version of gawk respects SHELL.
+
+Compatibility among shells and various utilities (including gawk)
+continues to be a problem. Stewartson's shell may be the best choice
+for emx-compiled programs (although djgpp-bash almost works with
+emx on DOS). GNU make is recommended if using djgpp-bash.
+
+Beginning with 3.0.4, the MSC (DOS/Windows32) and Mingw32 versions write
+pipe and system() commands to a temporary file, and then execute
+with SHELL or COMSPEC. The current mechanism defaults to dos-style
+shell conventions unless the shell is one of sh, bash, csh, tcsh, sh32,
+sh16, or ksh.
+
+
+4. GNU make is available at LEO for OS/2, in the djgpp collection
+for DOS, and in the Mingw32 collection for Windows32.
+
+dmake is by Dennis Vadura (dvadura@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca), CS
+Dept., University of Waterloo. OS/2 and DOS versions can be found as
+part of the GNUish project. Note that DOS users will need the DOS-only
+version (due to the swap requirement).
+
+Ndmake is by D.G. Kneller. This ShareWare program was later released
+as Opus Make (which is available for OS/2 and DOS). Ndmake 4.5 is
+available at
+
+ ftp://ftp.simtel.net/simtelnet/msdos/c/ndmake45.zip
+
+
+5. Stewartson's shell contains sources for a setargv-replacement
+for MSC, which can add enhanced command-line processing capabilities
+to gawk. See the makefile. Note that there is a fatal bug in
+stdargv.c, triggered in the case of no closing quote. The following
+patch treats this case as if a quote was inserted as the last
+character on the command-line.
+
+478,479c478,482
+< else
+< spos = &spos[strlen (cpos)];
+---
+> else {
+> /* No matching quote. Fake it. */
+> spos = cpos + strlen (cpos) + 1;
+> break;
+> }
+
+
+Known bugs
+----------
+
+1. DJGPP version 1 has known problems with signals, and in the way it
+handles command-lines. Older versions of this file contain notes on
+other bugs, and on a few bugs uncovered in the v2 betas. Testing of
+gawk with DJGPP v1 ended with gawk-3.0. djgpp-2.01 and djgpp ports of
+GNU make 3.75 or later are strongly preferred, in part due to enhanced
+support for sh-like shells.
+
+2. emx does not support DST. On 2-Jan-96, Mattes writes:
+
+ Quotation from ISO 9899-1990:
+
+ 7.12.3.5 The strftime function
+ [...]
+ %Z is replaced by the time zone name or abbreviation, or by no
+ characters if no time zone is determinable.
+
+ As emx does not yet support DST, it does not know which one of the two
+ time zones (with DST vs. without DST) applies. In consequence, `no
+ time zone is determinable'.
+
+As a workaround, it may be possible to edit do_strftime() of builtin.c
+according to Mattes' recommendation:
+
+ If you happen to know whether DST applies or not for a given struct
+ tm, just set its tm_isdst to a positive value or to zero, respectively.
+ Then, strftime() will replace %Z with the name of the time zone.
+
+However, this probably won't yield a generic solution given that the rules
+for when DST starts and stops vary depending upon your location and the
+rules have changed over time. Most versions of UNIX maintain this
+information in a database (of sorts). In Solaris, for instance, it can be
+found in /usr/share/zoneinfo/*. The setting of the TZ environment variable
+(eg. TZ=US/Pacific) is then used to lookup the specifics for that locale.
+
+3. The 16-bit DOS version can exhaust memory on scripts such as Henry
+Spencer's "awf". Use GNU C versions if possible.
+
+4. builtin.c of gawk-3.0.[1-6] triggers a bug in MSC 6.00A. The makefile
+works around the bug by compiling builtin.c without optimizations (-Od).
+In limited testing, it appears that inserting some dummy code in
+builtin.c can provide a better solution than disabling optimizations.
+
+5. There are problems with system() when using the rsx package with emx
+programs (rsx is used in DPMI environments such as MS-Win). The djgpp
+versions are preferred in this case.
+
+6. In contrast to getpid() on UNIX, the getpid() in Microsoft C/C++ 1.52
+(AKA 8.0) sometimes returns negative numbers. The DOS Gawk developers felt
+that it was best to use Microsoft's built-in function; but at the same time,
+we are placing this warning here, because this behavior will undoubtably be
+surprising to many.
+
+7. MSC 6 fails the strftlng test. The funstack test exhausts memory
+on the 16bit DOS versions.
+
+8. Eli Zaretskii writes: "Make can crash with SIGFPE after finishing all
+the tests. This happens on Windows 95 only, and Gawk 3.0.3 does that as
+well (as do older versions of Make). The cause for this is the log(-1)
+call in the last test. Based on some limited testing, I'd say that the
+problem is in sloppy Windows handling of the FPU: it doesn't clean up the
+FPU after a program exits, so if Make has SIGFPE unmasked, it crashes."
+
+9. gawk built from the mingw32 and vcWin32 targets continues to have
+problems with pipes; in particular, the pipeio1 test fails.
+
+10. As mentioned above, `|&' only works with cygwin.
+
+
+Gawk thanks
+-----------
+
+The DOS maintainers wish to express their thanks to Eli Zaretskii
+<eliz@is.elta.co.il> for his work and for the many conversations
+concerning gawk, make, and djgpp. His FAQ for djgpp is essential
+reading, and he was always willing to answer our questions (even when
+we didn't read the relevant portions of the FAQ :).
+
+We are indebted to Juan Grigera <juan@biophnet.unlp.edu.ar> for the
+Visual C++ target, and for additional help on changes for Windows32.
+
+
+----
+If you have any problems with the DOS or OS/2 versions of Gawk,
+please send bug reports (along with the version and compiler used) to
+
+ Scott Deifik, scottd.mail@sbcglobal.net (DOS versions)
+or
+ gawk-maintainer@unixos2.org (OS/2 version)
+ Darrel Hankerson, hankedr@mail.auburn.edu
+
+Support for Windows32 started in gawk-3.0.3. Reports on
+the Visual C++ version (vcWin32) may be sent to
+
+ Juan Grigera, juan@biophnet.unlp.edu.ar (Visual C++ version)
+
+with a copy to Scott Deifik. Other Windows32 reports may go to Darrel
+Hankerson.