4 files changed, 31 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/README_d/README.VMS b/README_d/README.VMS
index 40442b14..4d193981 100644
--- a/README_d/README.VMS
+++ b/README_d/README.VMS
@@ -19,9 +19,8 @@ GNU C  -- use `@vmsbuild GNUC' or `MMS/MACRO=("GNUC")'.  On a system
         `@vmsbuild GNUC DO_GNUC_SETUP' or
         `MMS/MACRO=("GNUC","DO_GNUC_SETUP")'.
 
-     Tested under Alpha/VMS V6.2 using DEC C V5.2 and under VAX/VMS V6.2
-using DEC C V5.2, VAX C 3.2, and GNU C 2.7.1.  GAWK should work without
-modifications for VMS V4.6 and up.
+     Tested under Alpha/VMS V7.1 using DEC C V6.4.  GAWK should work
+without modifications for VMS V4.6 and up.
 
 
 Installing GAWK on VMS:
@@ -80,24 +79,3 @@ separated list of directory specifications.  When defining it, the
 value should be quoted so that it retains a single translation, not a
 multi-translation RMS searchlist.
 
-
-Building and using GAWK under VMS POSIX:
-
-     Ignore the instructions above, although vms/gawk.hlp should still
-be made available in a help library.  The source tree should be unpacked
-into a container file subsystem rather than into the ordinary VMS file
-system.  Make sure that the two scripts, 'configure' and 'vms/posix-cc.sh',
-are executable; use `chmod +x' on them if necessary.  Then execute the
-following two commands:
- |psx> CC=vms/posix-cc.sh configure
- |psx> make CC=c89 gawk
-The first command will construct files "config.h" and "Makefile" out
-of templates, using a script to make the C compiler fit 'configure's
-expectations.  The second command will compile and link 'gawk' using
-the C compiler directly; ignore any warnings from `make' about being
-unable to redefine "CC".  The configure script will take a very long
-time to execute, but at least it provides incremental feedback as it
-runs.
-
-     Tested with VAX/VMS V6.2 + VMS POSIX V2.0 + DEC C V5.2.
-
diff --git a/README_d/README.ia64 b/README_d/README.ia64
index f93df876..439f9f3c 100644
--- a/README_d/README.ia64
+++ b/README_d/README.ia64
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Tue Apr 16 13:55:15 IDT 2002
+============================
+The current version of the IA-64 environment builds gawk without any problems.
+
 Wed Apr 25 17:17:01 IDT 2001
 ============================
 
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)
diff --git a/README_d/README.solaris b/README_d/README.solaris
index 24adee88..205f7634 100644
--- a/README_d/README.solaris
+++ b/README_d/README.solaris
@@ -53,8 +53,13 @@ IMHO this is Sun's problem, not mine.
 Arnold Robbins
 arnold@gnu.org
 
-Solution to Problem #1:
-=======================
+Solution (a) to Problem #2:
+===========================
+Now fixed in the code via Paul Eggert's 2001-09-0 patch. See the
+ChangeLog.
+
+Solution (b) to Problem #2:
+===========================
 From: Paul Nevai <nevai@math.ohio-state.edu>
 Subject: Re: gawk-3.0.4
 To: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)