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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/one-true-awk/README b/contrib/one-true-awk/README index 8fbf30b..166840f 100644 --- a/contrib/one-true-awk/README +++ b/contrib/one-true-awk/README @@ -72,8 +72,14 @@ This also compiles with Visual C++ on all flavors of Windows, *if* you provide versions of popen and pclose. The file missing95.c contains versions that can be used to get started with, though the underlying support has mysterious properties, -the symptom of which can be truncated pipe output. Beware. -The file makefile.win gives hints on how to proceed. +the symptom of which can be truncated pipe output. Beware. The +file makefile.win gives hints on how to proceed; if you run +vcvars32.bat, it will set up necessary paths and parameters so +you can subsequently run nmake -f makefile.win. Beware also that +when running on Windows under command.com, various quoting +conventions are different from Unix systems: single quotes won't +work around arguments, and various characters like % are +interpreted within double quotes. This compiles without change on Macintosh OS X using gcc and the standard developer tools. |
