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diff --git a/doc/gawktexi.in b/doc/gawktexi.in index f1a57699..c883faea 100644 --- a/doc/gawktexi.in +++ b/doc/gawktexi.in @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ A copy of the license is included in the section entitled A copy of the license may be found on the Internet at @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/GNU-Free-Documentation-License.html, -the GNU Project's web site}. +the GNU Project's website}. @end ifset @enumerate a @@ -2038,13 +2038,13 @@ contributed code: the archive did not grow and the domain went unused for several years. Late in 2008, a volunteer took on the task of setting up -an @command{awk}-related web site---@uref{http://awk.info}---and did a very +an @command{awk}-related website---@uref{http://awk.info}---and did a very nice job. If you have written an interesting @command{awk} program, or have written a @command{gawk} extension that you would like to share with the rest of the world, please see @uref{http://awk.info/?contribute} for how to -contribute it to the web site. +contribute it to the website. @ignore As of this writing, this website is in search of a maintainer; please @@ -2609,7 +2609,7 @@ according to the instructions in your program. (This is different from a @dfn{compiled} language such as C, where your program is first compiled into machine code that is executed directly by your system's processor.) The @command{awk} utility is thus termed an @dfn{interpreter}. -Many modern languages are interperted. +Many modern languages are interpreted. The line beginning with @samp{#!} lists the full @value{FN} of an interpreter to run and a single optional initial command-line argument @@ -5081,7 +5081,7 @@ undefined results. (The @samp{\x} escape sequence is not allowed in POSIX @command{awk}.) @quotation CAUTION -The next major relase of @command{gawk} will change, such +The next major release of @command{gawk} will change, such that a maximum of two hexadecimal digits following the @samp{\x} will be used. @end quotation @@ -7401,7 +7401,7 @@ is so-called @dfn{comma-separated values} (CSV) data. Many spreadsheet programs, for example, can export their data into text files, where each record is terminated with a newline, and fields are separated by commas. If only commas separated the data, there wouldn't be an issue. The problem comes when -one of the fields contains an @emph{embedded} comma. Altough there is no +one of the fields contains an @emph{embedded} comma. Although there is no formal standard specification for CSV data,@footnote{At least, we don't know of one.} in such cases, most programs embed the field in double quotes. So we might have data like this: @@ -8407,7 +8407,7 @@ command line, but otherwise ignores it. This makes it easier to use shell wildcards with your @command{awk} program: @example -$ @kbd{gawk -f whizprog.awk *} @ii{Directories could kill this progam} +$ @kbd{gawk -f whizprog.awk *} @ii{Directories could kill this program} @end example If either of the @option{--posix} @@ -26538,7 +26538,7 @@ of @code{IGNORECASE} also affects sorting for both @code{asort()} and @code{asor Note also that the locale's sorting order does @emph{not} come into play; comparisons are based on character values only.@footnote{This is true because locale-based comparison occurs only when in -POSIX-compatibility mode, and becasue @code{asort()} and @code{asorti()} are +POSIX-compatibility mode, and because @code{asort()} and @code{asorti()} are @command{gawk} extensions, they are not available in that case.} @node Two-way I/O @@ -36820,7 +36820,7 @@ Ancient OS/2 ports of GNU @command{make} are not able to handle the Makefiles of this package. If you encounter any problems with @command{make}, try GNU Make 3.79.1 or later versions. You should find the latest version on -@uref{ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/}.@footnote{As of May, 2014, +@uref{ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/}.@footnote{As of November 2014, this site is still there, but the author could not find a package for GNU Make.} @end quotation @@ -37547,9 +37547,13 @@ directory named @file{awk}. This version requires an ISO C (1990 standard) compiler; the C compiler from GCC (the GNU Compiler Collection) works quite nicely. -@xref{Common Extensions}, +@DBXREF{Common Extensions} for a list of extensions in this @command{awk} that are not in POSIX @command{awk}. +As a side note, Dan Bornstein has created a Git repository tracking +all the versions of BWK @command{awk} that he could find. It's +available at @uref{git://github.com/onetrueawk/awk}. + @cindex Brennan, Michael @cindex @command{mawk} utility @cindex source code, @command{mawk} @@ -37579,7 +37583,7 @@ Once you have it, is similar to @command{gawk}'s (@pxref{Unix Installation}). -@xref{Common Extensions}, +@DBXREF{Common Extensions} for a list of extensions in @command{mawk} that are not in POSIX @command{awk}. @cindex Sumner, Andrew @@ -37641,8 +37645,8 @@ has not been done, at least to our knowledge. @cindex Illumos @cindex Illumos, POSIX-compliant @command{awk} @cindex source code, Illumos @command{awk} -The source code used to be available from the OpenSolaris web site. -However, that project was ended and the web site shut down. Fortunately, the +The source code used to be available from the OpenSolaris website. +However, that project was ended and the website shut down. Fortunately, the @uref{http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/illumos+Home, Illumos project} makes this implementation available. You can view the files one at a time from @uref{https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/blob/master/usr/src/cmd/awk_xpg4}. @@ -37661,7 +37665,7 @@ from POSIX @command{awk}. More information is available on the @cindex libmawk @cindex source code, libmawk This is an embeddable @command{awk} interpreter derived from -@command{mawk}. For more information see +@command{mawk}. For more information, see @uref{http://repo.hu/projects/libmawk/}. @item @code{pawk} @@ -37675,7 +37679,7 @@ modified version of BWK @command{awk}, described earlier.) @item @w{QSE Awk} @cindex QSE Awk @cindex source code, QSE Awk -This is an embeddable @command{awk} interpreter. For more information +This is an embeddable @command{awk} interpreter. For more information, see @uref{http://code.google.com/p/qse/} and @uref{http://awk.info/?tools/qse}. @item @command{QTawk} @@ -37690,9 +37694,10 @@ including the manual and a download link. The project may also be frozen; no new code changes have been made since approximately 2008. -@item Other Versions -See also the @uref{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awk_language#Versions_and_implementations, -Wikipedia article}, for information on additional versions. +@item Other versions +See also the ``Versions and Implementations'' section of the +@uref{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awk_language#Versions_and_implementations, +Wikipedia article} for information on additional versions. @end table @c ENDOFRANGE awkim @@ -37894,7 +37899,7 @@ This document describes how GNU software should be written. If you haven't read it, please do so, preferably @emph{before} starting to modify @command{gawk}. (The @cite{GNU Coding Standards} are available from the GNU Project's -@uref{http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html, web site}. +@uref{http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html, website}. Texinfo, Info, and DVI versions are also available.) @cindex @command{gawk}, coding style in |