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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2018-08-27 08:17:38 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2018-08-27 08:17:38 +0300 |
| commit | 3ef0dc78fb7d7113bcb360b721952c61236d678c (patch) | |
| tree | 0d049ed4b9cb90d2431f584516d8f482687f14cc /doc/gawk.texi | |
| parent | af61c1525fc7a3379979889fc97c82e812907cf2 (diff) | |
| parent | 93d77e2de93b01e9d2681f31fe11b329dcafebdf (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'gawk-4.2-stable'
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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index beda03b9..e69b67a2 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -9591,10 +9591,10 @@ For @code{%A}, uppercase letters are used instead of lowercase ones. @quotation NOTE -While the current POSIX standard requires support for @code{%a} -and @code{%A} in @command{awk}, as far as we know, no other version -of @command{awk} actually implements it. It's use is thus highly -nonportable! +The current POSIX standard requires support for @code{%a} and @code{%A} in +@command{awk}. As far as we know, besides @command{gawk}, the only other +version of @command{awk} that actually implements it is BWK @command{awk}. +It's use is thus highly nonportable! Furthermore, these formats are not available on any system where the underlying C library @code{printf()} function does not support them. As |