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. if \w'\(rq' .ds rq "\(rq
. \}
.\}
-.TH GAWK 1 "Oct 19 2007" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands"
+.TH GAWK 1 "Jul 10 2009" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands"
.SH NAME
gawk \- pattern scanning and processing language
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -190,6 +190,19 @@ They are ignored by
since
.I gawk
has no pre-defined limits.
+(Current versions of the Bell Laboratories
+.I awk
+no longer accept them.)
+.TP
+.PD 0
+.B \-O
+.TP
+.PD
+.B \-\^\-optimize
+Enable optimizations upon the internal representation of the program.
+Currently, this includes just simple constant-folding. The
+.I gawk
+maintainer hopes to add additional optimizations over time.
.TP
.PD 0
.B "\-W compat"
@@ -491,7 +504,6 @@ This is also useful when reporting bugs.
.IR "GNU Coding Standards" ,
these options cause an immediate, successful exit.)
.TP
-.PD 0
.B \-\^\-
Signal the end of options. This is useful to allow further arguments to the
\*(AK program itself to start with a \*(lq\-\*(rq.
@@ -1909,7 +1921,7 @@ below.)
.PP
The
.BR getline
-command returns 0 on end of file and \-1 on an error.
+command returns 1 on success, 0 on end of file, and \-1 on an error.
Upon an error,
.B ERRNO
contains a string describing the problem.
@@ -3467,15 +3479,23 @@ Scott Deifik is the current DOS maintainer. Pat Rankin did the
port to VMS, and Michal Jaegermann did the port to the Atari ST.
The port to OS/2 was done by Kai Uwe Rommel, with contributions and
help from Darrel Hankerson.
-Juan M.\& Guerrero now maintains the OS/2 port.
+Andreas Buening now maintains the OS/2 port.
Fred Fish supplied support for the Amiga,
and Martin Brown provided the BeOS port.
Stephen Davies provided the original Tandem port, and
Matthew Woehlke provided changes for Tandem's POSIX-compliant systems.
+Ralf Wildenhues now maintains that port.
+.PP
+See the
+.I README
+file in the
+.I gawk
+distribution for current information about maintainers
+and which ports are currently supported.
.SH VERSION INFORMATION
This man page documents
.IR gawk ,
-version 3.1.6.
+version 3.1.7.
.SH BUG REPORTS
If you find a bug in
.IR gawk ,
@@ -3525,7 +3545,7 @@ provided valuable assistance during testing and debugging.
We thank him.
.SH COPYING PERMISSIONS
Copyright \(co 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996,
-1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007
+1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.PP
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of