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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index 17049b43..beda03b9 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -40660,37 +40660,26 @@ This @value{SECTION} briefly describes where to get them: Brian Kernighan, one of the original designers of Unix @command{awk}, has made his implementation of @command{awk} freely available. -You can retrieve this version via -@uref{http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk, his home page}. -It is available in several archive formats: - -@table @asis -@item Shell archive -@uref{http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/awk.shar} - -@item Compressed @command{tar} file -@uref{http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/awk.tar.gz} - -@item Zip file -@uref{http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/awk.zip} -@end table +You can retrieve it from GitHub: @cindex @command{git} utility -You can also retrieve it from GitHub: - @example git clone git://github.com/onetrueawk/awk bwkawk @end example @noindent This command creates a copy of the @uref{https://git-scm.com, Git} -repository in a directory named @file{bwkawk}. If you leave that argument -off the @command{git} command line, the repository copy is created in a +repository in a directory named @file{bwkawk}. If you omit the last argument +from the @command{git} command line, the repository copy is created in a directory named @file{awk}. This version requires an ISO C (1990 standard) compiler; the C compiler from GCC (the GNU Compiler Collection) works quite nicely. +To build it, review the settings in the @file{makefile}, and then just run +@command{make}. Note that the result of compilation is named +@command{a.out}; you will have to rename it to something reasonable. + @xref{Common Extensions} for a list of extensions in this @command{awk} that are not in POSIX @command{awk}. |