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+ Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
+ are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
+ notice and this notice are preserved.
+
+README:
+
+This is GNU Awk 3.1.6. 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.)
+
+This is a bug fix 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.
+
+Read the file POSIX.STD for a discussion of issues where the standard
+says one thing but gawk does something different.
+
+To format the documentation with TeX, use at least version 2000-10-27.17
+of texinfo.tex. There is a usable copy of texinfo.tex in the doc directory.
+
+INSTALLATION:
+
+Check whether there is a system-specific README file for your system under
+the `README_d' directory. If there's something there that you should
+have read and didn't, and you bug me about it, I'm going to yell at you.
+
+See the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
+
+If you have neither bison nor yacc, use the awkgram.c file here. It was
+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.
+
+Ports for the Atari and old Tandem systems are supplied, but they are
+unsupported. Thus, their code appears in the `unsupported' directory.
+
+Appendix B of ``GAWK: Effective Awk Programming'' discusses configuration
+in detail. The configuration process is based on GNU Autoconf and
+Automake.
+
+After successful compilation, do `make check' to run the test suite.
+There should be no output from the `cmp' invocations except in the
+cases where there are small differences in floating point values, and
+possibly in the case of strftime. Several of the tests ignore errors
+on purpose; those are not a problem. If there are other differences,
+please investigate and report the problem.
+
+PRINTING THE MANUAL
+
+The `doc' directory contains a recent version of texinfo.tex, which will
+be necessary for printing the manual. Use `make dvi' to get a DVI file
+from the manual. In the `doc' directory, use `make postscript' to get
+PostScript versions of the manual, the man page, and the reference card.
+
+BUG REPORTS AND FIXES (Un*x systems):
+
+Please coordinate changes through Arnold Robbins. In particular, see
+the section in the manual on reporting bugs. Note that comp.lang.awk
+is about the worst place to post a gawk bug report. Please, use the
+mechanisms outlined in the manual.
+
+Email should be sent to bug-gawk@gnu.org. This address sends mail to
+Arnold Robbins and the general GNU utilities bug list. The advantage
+to using this address is that bug reports are archived at GNU Central.
+
+Arnold Robbins
+
+BUG REPORTS AND FIXES, non-Unix systems:
+
+Amiga:
+ Fred Fish
+ fnf@ninemoons.com
+
+Alpha/Linux:
+ Michal Jaegermann
+ michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca
+
+BeOS:
+ Martin Brown
+ mc@whoever.com
+
+MS-DOS:
+ Scott Deifik
+ scottd.mail@sbcglobal.net
+
+ Darrel Hankerson
+ hankedr@mail.auburn.edu
+
+MS-Windows:
+ Juan Grigera
+ juan@biophnet.unlp.edu.ar
+
+OS/2:
+ andreas.buening@@nexgo.de
+
+Tandem:
+ Stephen Davies
+ scldad@sdc.com.au
+ (Original Tandem port)
+
+ Ralf Wildenhues
+ <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+ POSIX-compliant Tandem systems
+
+VMS:
+ Pat Rankin
+ rankin@pactechdata.com