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1This is mawk 1.1
2
3Mawk is an interpreter for the AWK programming language.
4
5Mawk 1.0 implemented the language as defined in the 1988 AWK book.
6Version 1.1 adds new features:
7
8     -- Full posix1003.2 draft(11.2) compliance
9
10	toupper(), tolower(), CONVFMT and ENVIRON[]
11
12	-v var=value command line assignments
13
14	Ansi C compatible printf() and sprintf()
15
16     -- Hard coded limits are either removed or much larger
17
18     -- MsDOS added, system() and pipes.  BINMODE variable to
19	control CRLF translation.
20
21
22Mawk is distributed without warranty under the terms of the
23GNU General Public License, version 2, June 1991.  The file
24COPYING contains the GNU General Public License, version 2.
25
26Mawk 1.1 has been test on:
27
28     sunos4.1.1  sun3 and sun4   (cc and gcc)
29     sunos4.0.3  sun3 and sun4   (cc and gcc)
30     ultrix4.2   decstation 5000 (mips) (cc and gcc)
31     ultrix4.1   microvax 3600
32     ultrix3.1   vax
33     bsd43	 vax
34     SysVR3	 SCO3.2.2      (cc, rcc and gcc)
35     ESIX System 5.3.2 RevD using gcc 1.39
36     SysVR3      Stardent 3000
37     MsDOS	 TurboC++ 1.0 and BCC++, MSC5.1 and 6.0
38     MIPS M2000 	C 2.20 (4.52)
39     Atarist	 cross compile with gcc
40
41
42Mawk 1.0 compiled and tested on the following which should still
43work with at most minor tweaking.
44
45	XENIX SysV R2.3.1
46	Dynix on Sequent Symmetry
47	apolloSR10.3
48
49
50To install:
51  Unix or Unix-like OS  read  INSTALL
52  MsDOS  read msdos/NOTES
53  Mac read macintosh/NOTES
54  atarist   read  atarist/README.ST
55
56mawk1.1 (this distribution)  and  mawk1_1.zip (msdos executables)
57can also be obtained by anonymous ftp from oxy.edu.
58
59Bug reports or other correspondence should be sent to
60
61Mike Brennan
62brennan@boeing.com
63