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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, - 2016, 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright @@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ README: -This is GNU Awk 4.2.1. It is upwardly compatible with Brian Kernighan's +This is GNU Awk 5.0.0. It is upwardly compatible with Brian Kernighan's version of Unix awk. It is almost completely compliant with the -2008 POSIX 1003.1 standard for awk. (See the note below about POSIX.) +2018 POSIX 1003.1 standard for awk. (See the note below about POSIX.) -This is a bug-fix release. See NEWS and ChangeLog for details. +This is a major release. See NEWS and ChangeLog for details. Work to be done is described briefly in the TODO file, which is available only in the 'master' branch in the Git repo. @@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ says one thing but gawk does something different. To format the documentation with TeX, use at least version 2017-09.16 of texinfo.tex. There is a usable copy of texinfo.tex in the doc directory. -You should also use at least version 6.1 of texindex and of makeinfo -from the texinfo-6.1 distribution. +You should also use at least version 6.5 of texindex and of makeinfo +from the texinfo-6.5 distribution. INSTALLATION: @@ -72,8 +72,9 @@ BUG REPORTS AND FIXES (Un*x systems): Please coordinate changes through Arnold Robbins. In particular, see the section in the manual on reporting bugs. Note that comp.lang.awk -is about the worst place to post a gawk bug report. Please, use the -mechanisms outlined in the manual. +is about the worst place to post a gawk bug report. So too is use of +a web forum such as Stack Overflow. Please, use the mechanisms outlined +in the manual. Email should be sent to bug-gawk@gnu.org. This is a separate mailing list at GNU Central. The advantage to using this address is that bug @@ -102,7 +103,3 @@ VMS: z/OS (OS/390) Contact: Daniel Richard G. skunk@iSKUNK.ORG - -z/OS (OS/390) Maintainer Emeritus: - Dave Pitts - dpitts@cozx.com |