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diff --git a/ACKNOWLEDGMENT b/ACKNOWLEDGMENT index cb4021f7..a17a2eba 100644 --- a/ACKNOWLEDGMENT +++ b/ACKNOWLEDGMENT @@ -3,22 +3,31 @@ many people who have contributed to the development through bug reports and fixes and suggestions. Unfortunately, we have not been organized enough to keep track of all the names -- for that we apologize. -Another group of people have assisted even more by porting Gawk to new -platforms and providing a great deal of feedback. They are: +The following people were involved in porting gawk to different platforms. - Hal Peterson <hrp@pecan.cray.com> (Cray) - Pat Rankin <gawk.rankin@EQL.Caltech.Edu> (VMS) - Michal Jaegermann <michal@gortel.phys.UAlberta.CA> (Atari, NeXT, DEC 3100) Mike Lijewski <mjlx@eagle.cnsf.cornell.edu> (IBM RS6000) - Scott Deifik <scottd@amgen.com> (MSDOS 2.14 and 2.15) Kent Williams (MSDOS 2.11) Conrad Kwok (MSDOS earlier versions) Scott Garfinkle (MSDOS earlier versions) + +This group of people comprise the "GAWK crack portability team", who +test the pre-releases and ensure portability of gawk. + + Hal Peterson <hrp@pecan.cray.com> (Cray) + Pat Rankin <gawk.rankin@EQL.Caltech.Edu> (VMS) + Michal Jaegermann <michal@gortel.phys.UAlberta.CA> + (Atari, NeXT, DEC 3100) + Scott Deifik <scottd@amgen.com> (MSDOS 2.14 and 2.15) Kai Uwe Rommel <rommel@ars.muc.de> (OS/2) Darrel Hankerson <hankedr@mail.auburn.edu> (OS/2) Mark Moraes <Mark-Moraes@deshaw.com> (Code Center, Purify) Kaveh Ghazi <ghazi@noc.rutgers.edu> (Lots of Unix variants) +Michal, Scott and Darrel go out of their way to make sure that gawk +works on non-32 bit systems, and keep me on track where portability is +concerned. Indeed, all of these folks are incredibly helpful; gawk would +not be the fine program it is now without them. + Last, but far from least, we would like to thank Brian Kernighan who has helped to clear up many dark corners of the language and provided a restraining touch when we have been overly tempted by "feeping |