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diff --git a/README_d/README.pc b/README_d/README.pc index bbd51e31..066b1ae8 100644 --- a/README_d/README.pc +++ b/README_d/README.pc @@ -8,6 +8,20 @@ DOS, and Win32 with rsxnt), and Jan-Jaap van der Heijden and Mumit Khan version for Windows 9x/NT, and MSC can be used to build 16-bit versions for DOS and OS/2. + The cygwin environment (http://www.cygwin.com) may also be used +to compile and run gawk under Windows. For cygwin, building and +installation is the same as under Unix: + + tar -xvpzf gawk-3.1.x.tar.gz + cd gawk-3.1.x + ./configure && make + +The `configure' step takes a long time, but works otherwise. + +******************************** N O T E ********************************** +* The `|&' operator only works when gawk is compiled for cygwin. Neither * +* socket support nor two-way pipes work in any other Windows environment! * +*************************************************************************** Building gawk ------------- @@ -330,6 +344,8 @@ FPU after a program exits, so if Make has SIGFPE unmasked, it crashes." 9. gawk built from the mingw32 and vcWin32 targets continues to have problems with pipes; in particular, the pipeio1 test fails. +10. As mentioned above, `|&' only works with cygwin. + Gawk thanks ----------- @@ -350,11 +366,10 @@ please send bug reports (along with the version and compiler used) to Scott Deifik, scottd@amgen.com (DOS versions) or - Kai Uwe Rommel, rommel@ars.de (OS/2 or bound versions) + gawk-maintainer@unixos2.org (OS/2 version) Darrel Hankerson, hankedr@mail.auburn.edu -Support for Win32 started in gawk-3.0.3. Reports concerning the emx -version using rsxnt (emxnt) should go to Kai Uwe Rommel. Reports on +Support for Win32 started in gawk-3.0.3. Reports on the Visual C++ version (vcWin32) may be sent to Juan Grigera, juan@biophnet.unlp.edu.ar (Visual C++ version) |