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diff --git a/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README b/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1206429 --- /dev/null +++ b/coreutils-5.3.0-bin/contrib/gawk/3.1.6/gawk-3.1.6-src/README @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@ + 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 |