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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ README: -This is GNU Awk 2.11 Beta. It should be upwardly compatible with the +This is GNU Awk 2.11. It should be upwardly compatible with the System V Release 4 awk. This release is essentially a bug fix release. The files have been @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ CHANGES FROM 2.10 User visible changes: Compatibility mode is now obtained via new -c option. - The new ANSI \a and \x escapes are now a standard part of gawk + The new ANSI C \a and \x escapes are now a standard part of gawk as Unix nawk has picked them up. The new tolower() and toupper() functions are also standard. A new undocumented option, -nostalgia, has been added. @@ -37,12 +37,10 @@ Other changes (the hard stuff): Still more memory leaks plugged. Lots of changes to improve performance and portability. -PC users take note! PC support is not provided in this release as we - could not get anyone to do it; the person who did it for 2.10 lost - his network connectivity. It may be provided later either by - us or by him. The stuff in pc.d is from 2.10; anyone who cares - to make it work for 2.11 under MS-DOS is welcome to do so and - to feed the changes back to us. +PC users, you've been saved! + As of patchlevel 1, we are now supplying MS-DOS "support." Said + support was generously provided by Kent Williams, who is now + the contact person for it. See below for his address. INSTALLATION: @@ -65,7 +63,6 @@ modifying awk.y without bison or yacc will be difficult, at best. You might want to get a copy of bison from the FSF too.) If you have an MS-DOS system, use the stuff in pc.d. -(But see the note above.) PRINTING THE MANUAL @@ -92,12 +89,11 @@ UUCP {uunet utai watmath}!dalcs!david INTERNET david@cs.dal.ca Arnold Robbins -Emory University Computing Center -Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA +1315 Kittredge Court, N.E. +Atlanta, GA, 30329-3539, USA -INTERNET: arnold@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu -UUCP: { gatech, mtxinu }!emoryu1!arnold -BITNET: arnold@emoryu1 +INTERNET: arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us +UUCP: { gatech, emory, emoryu1 }!skeeve!arnold If you can't contact either of us, try Jay Fenlason, hack@prep.ai.mit.edu AKA mit-eddie!prep!hack. During odd hours he can sometimes be reached at @@ -107,10 +103,9 @@ never heard of him. (Direct them to the microvax about 10 feet to their left.) MS-DOS SUPPORT -(This section is now outdated, see above.) - -Support for MSC 5.1 was supplied by Conrad Kwok and Scott Garfinkle. -Scott is the contact person if you have problems with the MS-DOS version, -uunet!cos!stubby!seg. (NOTE! This is a new address.) Of course, if it's +Support for MSC 5.1 was supplied for 2.11 by Kent Williams, who can be +reached at williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu. It relies heavily on the +earlier work done for 2.10 by Conrad Kwok and Scott Garfinkle. Bug +reports on the MS-DOS version should go to Kent. Of course, if it's a generic bug, we want to hear about it too, but if it isn't reproducible under Unix, we won't be as interested. |