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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index beda03b9..e69b67a2 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -9591,10 +9591,10 @@ For @code{%A}, uppercase letters are used instead of lowercase ones. @quotation NOTE -While the current POSIX standard requires support for @code{%a} -and @code{%A} in @command{awk}, as far as we know, no other version -of @command{awk} actually implements it. It's use is thus highly -nonportable! +The current POSIX standard requires support for @code{%a} and @code{%A} in +@command{awk}. As far as we know, besides @command{gawk}, the only other +version of @command{awk} that actually implements it is BWK @command{awk}. +It's use is thus highly nonportable! Furthermore, these formats are not available on any system where the underlying C library @code{printf()} function does not support them. As |