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diff --git a/contrib/awk/README b/contrib/awk/README deleted file mode 100644 index a07db51..0000000 --- a/contrib/awk/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,104 +0,0 @@ -README: - -This is GNU Awk 3.1.0. It is upwardly compatible with the Bell Labs -research version of awk. It is almost completely compliant with the -1993 POSIX 1003.2 standard for awk. (See the note below about POSIX.) - -There are lots of new features -- 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 how the standard says -comparisons should be done vs. how they really should be done and how -gawk does them. - -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 Win32, 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 Tandem 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@amgen.com - - Darrel Hankerson - hankedr@mail.auburn.edu - -MS-Windows: - Juan Grigera - juan@biophnet.unlp.edu.ar - -OS/2: - Kai Uwe Rommel - rommel@ars.de - -Tandem: - Stephen Davies - scldad@sdc.com.au - -VMS: - Pat Rankin - rankin@eql.caltech.edu |