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* ChangeLog: Remove spurious whitespace.
+ Unrelated:
+
+ * gawk.1: Restore test on PROCINFO["RETRY"] and fix up the
+ formatting while we're at it. Thanks to Andrew Schorr for
+ pointing out the problem.
+
2016-01-13 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Array Sorting Functions): Add an example of
using a function name with asort(). Response to bug report
Stephane Goujet <stephane.goujet@wanadoo.fr>.
+2016-01-06 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Finish documenting that --pretty-print
+ doesn't run the program. Thanks to Antonio
+ Giovanni Colombo for the report and patch.
+
+2016-01-03 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Document that GNU/Linux on Alpha is no
+ longer supported.
+
2015-12-27 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Fix some @c endfile. Thanks to Antonio
Giovanni Colombo for the report and patch.
+2015-12-20 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Add PROCINFO["NONFATAL"] to the list for PROCINFO.
+ * gawk.1: Ditto.
+
2015-12-18 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawk.1: Update description of PROCINFO, and sort it properly.
@@ -38,6 +60,11 @@
2015-11-15 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Minor edits.
+ * gawk.1: Revise \x to maximum of two digits.
+
+2015-11-04 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * Makefile.am (pdf-local): Remove igawk.1.pdf. Ooops.
2015-10-30 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
@@ -50,6 +77,10 @@
* gawk.1: Put commas outside quoting in regexps to avoid
confusion. Thanks to Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>.
+2015-10-16 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * awkcard.in: Fix tbl complaint.
+
2015-10-07 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* texinfo.tex: Updated to a working version.
@@ -81,11 +112,26 @@
* gawktexi.in: Typo fixes in Appendix A.
Thanks to Antonio Colombo.
+2015-07-30 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Small typo fix; thanks to Antonio Colombo
+ for noticing.
+
2015-07-01 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Update info on Quiktrim awk; thanks to
Antonio Colombo for the pointer.
+2015-06-30 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in (Limitations): Document that sometimes the
+ debugger can affect the program being run.
+ Thanks to Hermann Peifer for the test case.
+
+2015-06-26 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Update description of values returned by typeof.
+
2015-06-19 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawkinet.info: Fix an old arnold@gnu.org.
@@ -111,6 +157,13 @@
* gawktexi.in: Add another pithy quote from Chet Ramey. Currently
commented out.
+2015-05-31 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Revised description of default field parsing
+ for POSIX. Newline is now a separator also. Thanks to
+ Michael Klement <michael.klement@usa.net> for pointing this out.
+ * gawk.1: Updated too.
+
2015-05-30 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Bitwise Functions): Update results of testbits.awk.
@@ -135,15 +188,33 @@
* gawktexi.in: Fix description of nextfile within a function. Sigh.
+2015-05-15 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in (Undocumented): Describe the new PROCINFO["argv"] array.
+
2015-05-14 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Bugs): Add that email should be in plain
text and not in HTML. Sigh.
+2015-05-11 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Add doc on conversions for strongly typed
+ regexp variables.
+
+2015-05-03 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Add initial documentation for strongly typed
+ regexps and for `typeof'.
+
2015-04-29 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* 4.1.2: Release tar ball made.
+2015-04-16 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in (Undocumented): More info added.
+
2015-04-08 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Update feature history section.
@@ -165,6 +236,11 @@
* gawktexi.in: Fix a figure caption. Thanks to Antonio Colombo
for pointing this out.
+ * gawktexi.in: Additional typo fix, also thanks to Antonio.
+
+2015-04-02 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Name change: div() --> intdiv().
2015-03-31 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
@@ -172,10 +248,17 @@
indirectly. Small additional fix relating to rand(). Thanks
to Antonio Colombo.
+2015-03-27 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Minor edits.
+
2015-03-24 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Minor fixes from Antonio Colombo and new exercise
in chapter 16.
+ * gawk.1: Minor edits.
+ * gawktexi.in: Edits in material on errno and retryable and get_file
+ API.
2015-03-17 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>
@@ -189,6 +272,12 @@
Thanks to Nicholas Mills <nlmills@clemson.edu> for pointing out
the issue.
+2015-03-08 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Briefly describe that nonfatal I/O overrides
+ GAWK_SOCK_RETRIES, in the env var part and in the nonfatal I/O
+ part.
+
2015-03-01 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Change quotes to @dfn for pseudorandom.
@@ -245,6 +334,7 @@
2015-02-08 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: O'Reilly fixes.
+ Make non-fatal i/o use "NONFATAL".
2015-02-06 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
@@ -253,6 +343,7 @@
2015-02-04 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: O'Reilly fixes.
+ * gawktexi.in: Update various version-related bits of info.
2015-02-02 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
@@ -282,7 +373,7 @@
2015-01-25 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
- * gawktexi.in: Fix a bad URL.
+ * gawktexi.in: Fix a bad URL. And another one.
More O'Reilly fixes.
2015-01-23 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
@@ -304,12 +395,40 @@
* gawkinet.texi: Fix capitalization in document title.
* gawktexi.in: Here we go again: Starting on more O'Reilly fixes.
+2014-12-27 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Add info that nonfatal I/O works with stdout and
+ stderr. Revise version info and what was added when.
+
+2015-01-05 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Improve get_file documentation.
+
+2015-01-05 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Replace "Retrying I/O" with "Retrying Input", since this
+ feature pertains to input, not output.
+
+2015-01-04 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Document the get_file API function.
+
+2015-01-04 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>
+
+ * gawk.1: Document new features PROCINFO["errno"] and
+ PROCINFO["input", "RETRY"], and new getline return value of -2.
+ * gawktexi.in: Ditto.
+
2014-12-26 Antonio Giovanni Colombo <azc100@gmail.com>
* gawktexi.in (Glossary): Really sort the items.
2014-12-24 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+ * gawktexi.in: Start documenting nonfatal output.
+
+2014-12-24 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
* gawktexi.in: Add one more paragraph to new foreword.
* gawktexi.in: Fix exponentiation in TeX mode. Thanks to
Marco Curreli by way of Antonio Giovanni Colombo.
@@ -341,6 +460,11 @@
* gawktexi.in: Various minor fixes and updates.
+2014-11-23 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Update that TZ env. var can influnce mktime
+ in running program. Thanks to Hermann Peifer.
+
2014-11-19 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Update that RFC 4180 documents CSV data.
@@ -354,6 +478,11 @@
* gawktexi.in: Comment out that I need an owner for awk.info.
I may have found one or two people.
+2014-10-29 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Document new extras directory containing shell startup
+ files to manipulate AWKPATH and AWKLIBPATH environment variables.
+
2014-10-28 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawk.1: Clarification that debugger reads stdin.
@@ -367,6 +496,7 @@
2014-10-25 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Minor typo fixes.
+ Fix discussion of \x, per note from Antonio Colombo.
2014-10-17 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
@@ -408,10 +538,25 @@
* gawktexi.in: Pretty much done!
+ Unrelated:
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Fix braino in awk version of div function.
+ Thanks to Katie Wasserman for the catch.
+
2014-10-01 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: More fixes after reading through the MS.
+ Unrelated:
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Add Katie Wasserman's program to compute
+ the digits of PI.
+
+ Unrelated:
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Document the differences between profiling
+ and pretty printing.
+
2014-09-30 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: More fixes after reading through the MS.
@@ -507,6 +652,10 @@
exercises. Remove use of LC_ALL in an example; doesn't seem
to be needed anymore.
+ Unrelated:
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Document that MirBSD is no longer supported.
+
2014-08-25 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Exercises are excluded from print edition.
@@ -540,6 +689,10 @@
* gawktexi.in: Starting on reviewer comments.
Update acknowledgements.
+2014-08-12 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Cause div.awk to get into the example files.
+
2014-08-06 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Misc minor additions.
@@ -554,6 +707,18 @@
* gawktexi.in: Fix doc for API get_record - errcode needs to
be greater than zero.
+2014-07-24 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in (Numeric Functions): For `div()', clarify
+ truncation is towards zero. Thanks to Michal Jaegermann
+ for pointing out the need to clarify this.
+
+2014-07-10 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in (Numeric Functions): Document new `div()' function.
+ (Arbitrary Precision Integers): Document raison d'etre for div().
+ * gawk.1, awkcard.in: Document `div()'.
+
2014-07-04 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Bracket Expressions): Add a note about how to
@@ -564,6 +729,11 @@
* gawktexi.in: Update permissions on copyright page per
latest maintain.texi. Add GPL to print version of book.
+2014-06-24 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawktexi.in: Document that --pretty-print no longer runs the
+ program. Remove mention of GAWK_NO_PP_RUN env var.
+
2014-06-22 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Typo fixes and minor corrections.
@@ -860,7 +1030,7 @@
2013-12-26 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: More minor additions / fixes.
- (Bugs): Add John Malmberg for VMS.
+ (Bugs): Add John Malmberg for VMS. Other minor edits.
2013-12-25 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
@@ -934,6 +1104,11 @@
* gawktexi.in (FN, FFN, DF,DDF, PVERSION, CTL): Remove macros.
They have no alternate versions and are just in the way.
+2013-08-15 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+ * gawk.1: Document that ENVIRON updates affect the environment.
+ * gawktexi.in: Ditto.
+
2013-06-27 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* texinfo.tex: Update from Karl, fixes a formating problem.