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@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ * builtin.c (do_sub): Revert to gawk 3.1 behavior for backslash handling. It was stupid to think I could break compatibility. + Thanks to John Ellson <ellson@research.att.com> for raising + the issue. 2011-07-26 John Haque <j.eh@mchsi.com> diff --git a/README_d/ChangeLog b/README_d/ChangeLog index 2a0cf328..945ba215 100644 --- a/README_d/ChangeLog +++ b/README_d/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2011-07-29 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> + + * README.pc: Add download location info for DJGPP version. + 2011-07-15 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> * README.solaris: Info added on using the Solaris C compiler. diff --git a/README_d/README.pc b/README_d/README.pc index d4645632..f8addb09 100644 --- a/README_d/README.pc +++ b/README_d/README.pc @@ -92,3 +92,30 @@ or andreas.buening@nexgo.de (OS/2 version) Support for Windows32 started in gawk-3.0.3. + +---- +From: Eric Pement <eric.pement@gmail.com> +Newsgroups: comp.lang.awk +Subject: djgpp Gawk ver. 4.0 available +Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:42:00 -0700 (PDT) +MS Windows users: + +The DJGPP compilation of GNU awk v4.0.0 is now available here: + + ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gwk400b.zip + +For those who don't know the difference between the DGJPP compile and +other versions compiled for Windows, the most noticeable to me is that +it supports Unix-style use of 'single' and "double" quoting. Example: + + [c:\tmp]> :: normal Windows awk requires complex quoting + [c:\tmp]> gawk "BEGIN{ print \"hello, world\" }" + hello, world + [c:\tmp]> :: DJGPP compile of awk permits Unix quoting in CMD + [c:\tmp]> djgawk 'BEGIN{ print "hello, world" }' + hello, world + +Syntactic sugar? Sure. But it makes life easier in a Windows +environment, and without installing Cygwin ... + +Eric P. diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index 2891c904..87d8ff2e 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -20641,6 +20641,7 @@ necessary for accessing individual characters function was written before @command{gawk} acquired the ability to split strings into single characters using @code{""} as the separator. We have left it alone, since using @code{substr()} is more portable.} +@c FIXME: could use split(str, a, "") to do it more easily. The discussion that follows walks through the code a bit at a time: |