1Mon Jun 13 22:28:02 2011 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 2 3 * gawk.texi: Document that POSIX now says [a-z] is undefined outside 4 the C and POSIX locales, so gawk treats it as the Good Lord intended 5 in all cases. Thanks to Paul Eggert for letting me know about this 6 and providing URLs to cite. 7 8Fri May 27 09:59:38 2011 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 9 10 * gawk.1, gawk.texi: Minor edits w.r.t. the bug reporting address. 11 12Wed May 25 22:03:53 2011 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 13 14 * gawk.1, gawk.texi: Straighten out owners of the different 15 Windows ports. 16 17Thu May 19 17:52:46 2011 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 18 19 * gawk.texi: Igawk, have pathto check for "-". 20 Thanks to Steffen Schuler <schuler.steffen@googlemail.com>, 21 from email dated 27, December 2008. 22 23Thu May 19 16:57:28 2011 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 24 25 * gawk.texi, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Revised to reflect the reality 26 that -d and -p don't allow a space before the file name. 27 Thanks to Pat Rankin. 28 29Mon May 16 16:40:50 2011 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 30 31 * gawk.texi: Remove last vestiges of old PROCINFO sorting 32 description. 33 34Mon May 9 15:58:33 2011 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 35 36 * gawk.texi: Finish array sorting and do a spell check. 37 38Fri May 6 13:21:20 2011 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 39 40 * gawk.texi: Finish edits after full read through. 41 * gawk.1: Update array sorting information. 42 43Wed May 4 23:39:09 2011 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 44 45 * gawk.texi: Start at revamping array sorting doc. Still 46 needs work. 47 48Wed Apr 27 21:49:23 2011 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 49 50 * gawk.1: Minor edit. 51 * awkcard.in: Document third arg to asort and asorti. 52 53Thu Apr 7 21:55:27 2011 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 54 55 * gawk.texi (Nextfile Function): Removed, along with all references, 56 since only gawk and MKS awk allow next from a function, so this 57 function was useless for most people. Strange that noone noticed. 58 I wonder who really reads the doc? 59 60 Lots of other fixes have been going in too. 61 62Sun Mar 27 21:10:55 2011 Pat Rankin <rankin@pactechdata.com> 63 64 * gawk.texi (Builit-in Variables: PROCINFO array, Scanning All 65 Elements of an Array: `for' statement): Update the documentation 66 for PROCINFO["sorted_in"]; add "ascending index number", 67 "descending index string", "ascending value", and "descending 68 value" as supported sort orderings. 69 * gawk.1 (PROCINFO array): Update PROCINFO["sorted_in"] to 70 reflect that the value matters, and list the supported sort orders. 71 72Tue Feb 15 17:11:26 2011 Pat Rankin <rankin@pactechdata.com> 73 74 * gawk.texi (Builit-in Variables: PROCINFO array, Scanning All 75 Elements of an Array: `for' statement): Document that the value 76 of PROCINFO["sorted_in"] matters; sort orders "ascending index 77 string", "descending index string", and "unsorted" are supported. 78 79Sun Feb 13 19:58:35 2011 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 80 81 * awkcard.in, gawk.1, gawk.texi, gawkinet.texi: Fix typos 82 and spelling errors. 83 84Thu Feb 10 21:48:18 2011 Pat Rankin <rankin@pactechdata.com> 85 86 * gawk.texi: Update VMS section. 87 88Thu Feb 10 21:31:36 2011 Andreas Buening <andreas.buening@nexgo.de> 89 90 * gawk.texi: Update OS/2 information. 91 92Thu Feb 10 21:06:14 2011 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 93 94 * lflashlight-small.xpic: Renamed from lflashlight.small.xpic. 95 * rflashlight-small.xpic: Renamed from rflashlight.small.xpic. 96 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Adjusted. 97 98Tue Feb 1 10:21:22 2011 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 99 100 * gawk.texi, awkcard.in, gawk.1: Document isarray function, 101 magic string in PROCINFO for array sorting. Needs a little 102 more work in gawk.texi. 103 104Mon Jan 10 21:52:21 2011 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 105 106 * lflashlight.small.xpic, rflashlight.small.xpic: Original 107 source files for flashlight files from xpic tool. 108 It only took over 10 years to put them into the dist. 109 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add the new files. 110 111Thu Jan 6 22:13:11 2011 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 112 113 * gawk.texi: Replace xpic figures in Appendix D with figures 114 from xfig. 115 * general-program.eps, general-program.fig, general-program.pdf, 116 process-flow.eps, process-flow.fig, process-flow.pdf: New files. 117 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add the new files. 118 119Wed Jan 5 14:33:51 2011 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 120 121 * Makefile.am: Sanitize making of different PDF files. 122 123Sun Jan 2 20:30:37 2011 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 124 125 * texinfo.tex: Update to latest from texinfo CVS repository. 126 127Tue Dec 28 21:46:21 2010 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 128 129 * README.DGAWK: Removed, since there is now a chapter on the 130 debugger. 131 * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove README.DGAWK. 132 133Tue Dec 28 07:13:20 2010 John Haque <j.eh@mchsi.com> 134 135 * gawk.texi: Update dgawk examples. Document condition command 136 without an expression. Fix a typo. 137 138Tue Dec 21 10:06:05 2010 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 139 140 * Makefile.am (pdf): Renamed from `all-pdf'. Much more logical 141 and easier to remember. 142 143Sat Dec 18 20:14:58 2010 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> 144 145 * gawk.texi (DOS Quoting): Fix a typo. 146 (Top, PC Installation): Remove "PC Dynamic" from the menus. 147 (PC Installation, PC Compiling, PC Using): Remove obsolete stuff. 148 Fix whitespace between sentences. Add indexing. 149 (PC Testing): New node, stuff moved from "PC Compiling". 150 (PC Dynamic): Node removed. 151 (Cygwin): Fix wording. 152 (MSYS): Fix whitespace between sentences. 153 154Thu Dec 9 22:27:53 2010 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 155 156 * awkcard.in, gawk.1, gawk.texi, gawkinet.texi: Remove discussion 157 of raw option in making sockets, since it was never implemented. 158 159Wed Dec 1 21:39:15 2010 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 160 161 * awkcard.in, gawk.1: Document arrays of arrays. 162 * gawk.texi: General progress. 163 164Mon Nov 8 22:24:21 2010 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 165 166 * gawk.1: Minor fix from Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> 167 to help Emacs fontification. 168 169Tue Nov 2 12:15:56 2010 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 170 171 * awkcard.in, gawk.1, gawk.texi: --lint --> -L, 172 --lint-old --> -t. 173 174Mon Nov 1 22:01:26 2010 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 175 176 * awkcard.in, gawk.1, gawk.texi: -l renamed -t. 177 178Sat Oct 30 05:53:25 2010 John Haque <j.eh@mchsi.com> 179 180 * gawk.texi: Added section on Array of Arrays. 181 182Sat Oct 23 20:36:58 2010 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 183 184 * awkcard.in: Updated, cleaned up. 185 * gawk.1: Updated, some clean up. 186 187Wed Sep 22 05:29:43 2010 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 188 189 * gawk.texi: Added section on @include files. 190 191Wed Aug 18 22:14:19 2010 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 192 193 * gawk.texi: Minor edits. 194 * Makefile.am (LN): Use `ln -f' when installing link for 195 pgawk.1. Thanks to Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>. 196 197Thu Jul 1 21:29:25 2010 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 198 199 * gawk.texi, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Document `/inet4' and `/inet6'. 200 201Sun Jun 27 21:58:47 2010 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 202 203 * gawk.texi, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Document all short options. 204 205Wed Jun 2 22:06:22 2010 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 206 207 * gawk.texi, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Document FPAT variable and patsplit 208 function. 209 210Fri Jun 12 13:28:24 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 211 212 * gawk.texi, gawk.1: Remove --disable-directories-fatal configuration 213 option. 214 215Thu Feb 26 20:36:18 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 216 217 * gawk.texi, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Document BEGINFILE and ENDFILE. 218 219Mon Feb 16 21:53:22 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 220 221 * gawk.texi: Document switch statements as always available. 222 * gawk.1: Ditto. 223 * awkcard.in: Ditto. 224 225Thu Feb 12 22:36:32 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 226 227 * gawk.texi: Document that interval expressions are now on by default. 228 Also that --gen-po is now --gen-pot. 229 * gawk.1: Ditto. 230 * awkcard.in: Ditto. 231 232Sat Jan 17 20:03:43 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 233 234 * gawk.texi: Document indirect function calls. 235 * gawk.1: Ditto. 236 * awkcard.in: Ditto. 237 238Tue Dec 30 22:22:04 2008 Assaf Gordon <gordon@cshl.edu> 239 240 * gawk.texi: Document new --sandbox option. 241 * gawk.1: Ditto. 242 * awkcard.in: Ditto. 243 244Tue Dec 30 22:21:11 2008 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 245 246 * gawk.texi: Change --binary to --characters-as-bytes, per Karl Berry. 247 * gawk.1: Ditto. 248 * awkcard.in: Ditto. 249 250Thu Dec 18 05:30:13 2008 Steffen Schuler <schuler.steffen@googlemail.com> 251 252 * gawk.texi: Documented fourth parameter of split(). 253 * gawk.1: Ditto. 254 * awkcard.in: Ditto. 255 256Thu Dec 18 05:16:48 2008 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 257 258 * gawk.texi: Minimally document `-b' / --binary. 259 * gawk.1: Ditto. 260 * awkcard.in: Ditto. 261 262Sun Nov 16 22:03:50 2008 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 263 264 * gawk.texi: Fully documented `-r' as synonym for --re-interval. 265 * gawk.1: Ditto. 266 * awkcard.in: Ditto. 267 268Tue Aug 3 13:35:15 2004 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 269 270 * gawk.texi: Document that gawk now uses the 2001 POSIX 271 rules for `sub' and `gsub'. 272 273Wed Dec 26 22:15:05 2001 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 274 275 * gawk.texi: Documented that process special files are gone. 276 * gawk.1: Ditto. 277 * awkcard.in: Ditto. 278 279Thu May 6 20:55:14 2010 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 280 281 * Release 3.1.8: Release tar file made. 282 283Tue Apr 20 11:48:31 2010 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 284 285 * texinfo.tex: Update to latest from texinfo git repository. 286 * gawk.texi, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Update version and copyright dates. 287 288Thu Mar 25 21:51:58 2010 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 289 290 * gawk.1: Clarify the socket timeout environment variables. 291 292Wed Mar 10 21:28:12 2010 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 293 294 * gawk.texi: Reworded 'index in array' so that there's no chance of 295 someone using 'index' as a real subscript. Thanks to Hermann 296 Peifer for the push. 297 298Thu Feb 4 20:54:48 2010 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 299 300 * gawk.texi: Multiple cleanups and bringing of things up to date. 301 * gawk.1: Ditto, only not as much. 302 * Makefile.am: New `all-pdf' target to make PDF files of manpage 303 and reference card. 304 305Tue Aug 4 06:07:35 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 306 307 * gawk.texi, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Document that 0 flag in 308 printf applies only to the numeric formats. 309 310Tue Aug 4 05:58:52 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 311 312 * texinfo.tex: Updated to current version. 313 314Tue Jul 21 22:28:56 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 315 316 * Release 3.1.7: Release tar file made. 317 318Tue Jul 21 22:20:25 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 319 320 * gawk.texi, awkcard.in: Update mawk site information now 321 that Thomas Dickey is maintaining it. 322 323Mon Jul 13 07:53:32 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 324 325 * Makefile.am (SEDME2): New macro, used in making awkcard.ps, 326 removes last empty page. Finally! 327 328Fri Jul 10 10:35:29 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 329 330 * awkcard.in: Rearrange items for better formatting and 331 organization. 332 * gawk.texi (Exit Status): New node to document exit values. 333 (Exit Statement): Give portability advice about exit value. 334 335Wed Jul 8 08:55:50 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 336 337 * awkcard.in: Really fix table option for --verbose. Other 338 fixes and improvements, including document %'d flag. 339 340Tue Jul 7 09:13:02 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 341 342 * awkcard.in: Fix table option for --verbose. 343 344Mon Jun 8 00:40:26 2009 Tommi Vainikainen <thv@iki.fi> 345 346 * gawk.1: Bug fix to restore space between paragraphs at 347 entry for "--". 348 349Thu May 21 21:09:59 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 350 351 * gawk.1, awkcard.in: Document new -O / --optimize option. 352 * gawk.texi (Options): Likewise. 353 354Fri May 15 14:34:37 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 355 356 * gawk.texi (User-defined): Document that you can't use 357 the name of a built-in variable as a function parameter. 358 359Sat May 2 23:36:10 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 360 361 * gawk.texi (Other Versions): Add Quiktrim awk. 362 (How to Contribute): Change things to point to awk.info. 363 364Mon Apr 6 22:29:47 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 365 366 * awkcard.in: Bell Labs awk also supports fflush() 367 and fflush(""). Thanks to Steffen Schuler 368 <schuler.steffen@googlemail.com>. 369 370Mon Mar 30 21:26:04 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 371 372 * gawk.texi (Simple Server): Fix bug since 3.1.0 where error 373 message from typo was in the middle of the HandleGet function. 374 Thanks to Tim Menzies for catching this. 375 376Mon Feb 9 22:11:16 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 377 378 * gawk.texi (Translate Program): Bug fix in stranslate 379 function from Steffen Schuler <schuler.steffen@googlemail.com>. 380 381Tue Feb 3 22:06:10 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 382 383 * gawk.texi (Regexp Field Splitting): Documented dark corner 384 of ^ in FS. 385 386Sat Jan 17 20:37:12 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 387 388 * gawk.texi (Plain Getline): Bug fix in code. Thanks to 389 Steffen Schuler <schuler.steffen@googlemail.com>. 390 391Mon Jan 5 22:47:42 2009 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 392 393 * gawk.1, awkcard.in: Document that getline returns 1 394 on sucess. Thanks to Paolo <oopla@users.sf.net> for 395 the report. 396 397Fri Dec 26 14:45:39 2008 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 398 399 * gawk.texi, gawkinet.texi: Update to FDL 1.3. 400 401Mon Dec 1 21:20:39 2008 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 402 403 * gawk.texi (File Checking): Correct the text at the end; getline 404 isn't fatal, period, not related to POSIX. Thanks to 405 Seb <sbb@tuxfamily.org> for pointing this out. 406 (Round-Function): Change initial return when equal to return ival, 407 which lops off any digits, e.g. if given 121.0. Thanks to 408 Timothy J. Stefanski <TJStefanski@magellanhealth.com>. 409 410Fri Aug 1 17:34:55 2008 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 411 412 * gawk.texi (Signature Program): Added new subsection. 413 414Thu Jul 31 21:38:08 2008 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 415 416 * gawk.texi (Variable Typing): Document that array elements created 417 by `match' also get strnum attribute. 418 419Mon Jun 2 22:47:08 2008 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 420 421 * gawk.texi (Control Letters): Add a note about %c only 422 taking values from 0 to 255. 423 (DOS Quoting): New node. 424 425Thu Jan 31 16:17:27 2008 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 426 427 * gawk.texi, gawkinet.texi: Updated the Back-Cover text per 428 latest from the FSF. 429 430Fri Jan 25 12:13:39 2008 Dave Pitts <dpitts@cozx.com> 431 432 * gawk.texi (pwcat.c, grcat.c): Added ZOS_USS changes. 433 434Mon Jan 14 05:30:16 2008 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 435 436 * gawk.texi: Add maintainer contact info for z/OS. 437 438Mon Oct 22 08:49:05 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 439 440 * Release 3.1.6: Release tar file made. 441 442Fri Oct 19 04:13:33 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 443 444 * gawk.1: Add length(array) to list of extensions at end. 445 Revise date. 446 447Thu Oct 18 08:40:59 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 448 449 * texinfo.tex: Updated to version from Texinfo 4.11. 450 451Sun Oct 14 20:37:59 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 452 453 * awkcard.in: Fix version numbers and copyright info, minor 454 cleanups to format nicely. 455 456Sun Sep 30 22:30:05 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 457 458 * gawk.texi (Conversion): Add table describing locale decimal 459 point versus period. 460 461Sat Sep 8 23:53:46 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 462 463 * gawk.texi: A number of minor fixes based on suggestions 464 from Jack Kelley <Jack.Kelley@epa.qld.gov.au>. 465 466Sat Aug 11 22:46:14 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 467 468 * gawk.texi (Copying): Move to GPL 3. 469 470Wed May 30 17:11:19 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 471 472 * Makefile.am (CLEANFILES): Added, so that even "make distclean" 473 will do the right thing. 474 (clean): Removed, let automake to do it. 475 476Tue May 29 22:49:16 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 477 478 * gawk.texi: Document --use-lc-numeric. Document that some 479 VMS systems come with an old version of gawk. 480 481Mon May 28 08:21:51 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 482 483 * gawk.1, awkcard.in: Document --use-lc-numeric. 484 485Tue May 15 13:27:38 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 486 487 * gawk.texi, gawk.1: Documented --disable-directories-fatal 488 configure option. 489 490Wed May 9 21:50:44 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 491 492 * gawk.1: Reviewed and updated, minor typos fixed. 493 * awkcard.in: Added mention of %F. 494 495Wed May 2 19:55:02 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 496 497 * gawk.texi: Cleaned up discussion of string concatenation 498 where needed, including a note about the mixed treatment 499 of `"echo " "date" | getline'. Sigh. 500 501Sun Apr 29 13:33:27 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 502 503 * gawk.texi (Time Functions): Update description of strftime 504 for third utc-flag argument. Other minor fixes. 505 * gawk.1, awkcard.in: Same. 506 507Tue Apr 3 22:47:40 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 508 509 * gawk.texi (New Ports): Update list of files for all of 510 regex that should not be messed with lightly. 511 512Wed Mar 21 09:02:53 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 513 514 * gawk.texi: Removed last vestiges of arnold@gnu.org 515 email address. 516 517Wed Mar 7 13:06:31 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 518 519 * gawk.texi (Getopt Function): Add a note that user level 520 code must clear out ARGV from 1 to Optind. 521 Thanks to Matthew.Hall1@VerizonWireless.com, from mail 522 dated Tue, 02 Aug 2005 09:04:37 -0700. 523 524Wed Mar 7 08:48:02 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 525 526 * gawk.texi: Fix my personal email address. Sheesh. 527 Thanks again to Sahak Petrosyan <petrosyan@gmail.com>. 528 529Tue Mar 6 09:13:38 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 530 531 * gawk.texi: Fix link to online version of the manual. 532 Thanks to Sahak Petrosyan <petrosyan@gmail.com>. 533 534Wed Feb 14 19:40:33 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 535 536 * gawk.texi: Add discussion of magic values for Inf, NaN, 537 and hexadecimal floating point in appendix on numbers. 538 Other minor updates for date, trademarks, etc. 539 540Sun Jan 21 12:59:33 2007 "Ennio-(Sr)" <ennio@WouldBe-ei.net> 541 542 * gawk.1: Add note that locale settings can influence the 543 choice of decimal point character. 544 545Sat Jan 13 22:43:39 2007 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> 546 547 * gawk.texi: Fix some typos. 548 * gawkinet.texi: Likewise. 549 550Sat Jan 13 21:25:28 2007 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> 551 552 * awkcard.in: next is POSIX. 553 * gawk.texi: V7/SVR3.1: Mention assignable `$0', `var in index' 554 as expression. Specify `FS' limitation. 555 556Fri Jan 12 12:28:51 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 557 558 * texinfo.tex: Updated upon move to current autotools. 559 560Thu Jan 4 19:56:45 2007 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 561 562 * gawk.1: Applied patch from Eric Raymond to stop his stupid 563 automated email kvetching about the wonders of docbook. 564 5652006-07-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> 566 567 * gawk.texi: Document that `$$0++--' isn't valid even though it 568 is unambiguous according to the Awk grammar. This is in response 569 to Open Group XCU ERN 86 570 <http://www.opengroup.org/austin/aardvark/latest/xcubug2.txt>. 571 572Fri Oct 21 12:50:19 2005 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 573 574 Better support for PDF, thanks to Marty Leisner 575 <leisner@rochester.rr.com> for the prodding. 576 577 * Makefile.am: Add lflashlight.pdf, rflashlight.pdf, statist.pdf 578 to EXTRADIST and add gawk.pdf and gawkinet.pdf to list of files 579 to remove for `clean'. 580 * lflashlight.pdf, rflashlight.pdf, statist.pdf: New files, created 581 with `epstopdf foo.eps > foo.pdf'. 582 583Tue Jul 26 21:46:16 2005 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 584 585 * Release 3.1.5: Release tar file made. 586 587Sun Jun 26 16:24:07 2005 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 588 589 * gawk.texi: Document `length(array)'. 590 * gawk.1: Ditto. 591 * awkcard.in: Ditto. 592 593Mon May 23 20:56:32 2005 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 594 595 * gawk.texi: Removed references to `--with-included-gettext'. 596 597Fri Apr 1 06:25:30 2005 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 598 599 * texinfo.tex: Updated to version 2005-01-30.17. 600 601Wed Feb 9 11:39:38 2005 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 602 603 * Makefile.am: Per Stepan Kasal, removed html rules, since 604 Automake does it for us. 605 606Tue Jan 4 18:47:34 2005 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 607 608 * texinfo.tex: Updated to version 2004-11-25.16. 609 610Mon Jan 3 14:09:57 2005 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 611 612 * texinfo.tex: Updated to version 2004-10-31.06. 613 614Wed Sep 22 11:40:06 2004 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 615 616 * gawk.1, gawk.texi, awkcard.in: Documented new --exec option. 617 618Mon Aug 2 12:18:15 2004 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 619 620 * Release 3.1.4: Release tar file made. 621 622Wed Jul 28 17:03:16 2004 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 623 624 * Makefile.am (TROFF): Add -U flag to invocation. Makes it 625 possible to format ref card from a build directory that isn't 626 the source directory. 627 (distclean): Removed target. Let automake handle it. 628 629Tue Jun 15 12:21:09 2004 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 630 631 * texinfo.tex: Updated to version 2004-06-14.14. 632 * gawk.texi (Dynamic Extensions): Text revised to follow 633 current implementation: new APIs, info on `n->param_cnt' 634 fixed. 635 636 Also in all index entries where comma does not separate 637 primary, secondary or tertiary terms, replaced the comma 638 with @comma{} and removed the corresponding comments. 639 640Mon May 31 09:11:01 2004 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 641 642 * ad.block, awkcard.in, cardfonts, colors, no.colors: Change 643 old email address to current one. 644 645Mon May 3 09:54:46 2004 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 646 647 * texinfo.tex: Updated to version from Automake 1.8.4. 648 649Mon Mar 22 10:53:13 2004 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 650 651 * texinfo.tex: Updated. 652 653Tue Jan 6 17:38:40 2004 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 654 655 * texinfo.tex: Updated. 656 * gawk.texi: All @strong{Note:} changed to `@quotation NOTE'. 657 658Mon Jul 7 11:01:43 2003 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 659 660 * Release 3.1.3: Release tar file made. 661 662Mon Jun 9 16:06:30 2003 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 663 664 * gawk.texi: Set automatic-xref-title and change all cross 665 references to be of the single-argument type. Made all 666 @node lines have just the node name. 667 668 Should have done both of these years ago. 669 670Sun May 11 16:08:58 2003 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 671 672 * Makefile.am (html, gawk.html, gawkinet.html): New targets. 673 674Mon Mar 31 17:15:23 2003 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 675 676 * Makefile.am (install-data-hook, uninstall-hook): Added code to 677 hard link gawk.1 to pgawk.1 upon install and remove pgawk.1 upon 678 uninstall. Avoids MANPATH search problems, etc. etc. 679 (man_MANS): Removed pgawk.1 from the list. 680 * pgawk.1: Removed. 681 682Wed Mar 19 14:10:31 2003 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 683 684 This time for sure. 685 -- Bullwinkle 686 687 * Release 3.1.2: Release tar file made. 688 689Tue Mar 11 11:22:36 2003 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 690 691 * Makefile.am (man_MANS): Add pgawk.1. 692 * pgawk.1: New file, does `.so gawk.1' so that `man pgawk' will work. 693 Thanks to Nelson Beebe for pointing the need for this. 694 695Sun Feb 9 09:45:06 2003 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 696 697 * gawk.texi, gawkinet.texi: Per Karl Berry, change dircategory 698 to follow current standards. In gawkinet.texi, remove 699 bracketing ifinfo. 700 701Thu Feb 6 12:06:22 2003 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 702 703 * texinfo.tex: Updated to version 2003-02-03.16 from Texinfo 4.5. 704 705Tue Feb 4 15:21:46 2003 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 706 707 * awkcard.in: Redid the page-breaking. 708 709Tue Feb 4 14:28:06 2003 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 710 711 All relevant files: Copyright year updated to 2003. 712 713Sun Jan 26 11:13:01 2003 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 714 715 * texinfo.tex: Updated to version 2003-01-24.17 from prep. 716 * gawk.texi: Documented asorti(), new elements in match() 3rd arg, 717 misc cleanups. Updated to FDL 1.2. 718 * awkcard.in, gawk.1: Ditto for asorti(), match(). 719 * gawkinet.texi: Updated to FDL 1.2. 720 721Thu Jan 16 18:34:54 2003 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 722 723 * texinfo.tex: Updated to version 2003-01-12.11 from prep. 724 725Sun Nov 24 17:55:23 2002 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 726 727 * texinfo.tex: Updated to version 2002-11-05.11 from Texinfo 4.3. 728 729Sun Nov 17 21:34:35 2002 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 730 731 * texinfo.tex: Updated to version 2002-10-13.14 from automake 1.7.1. 732 733Fri Nov 1 11:25:00 2002 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 734 735 From Kaveh Ghazi: 736 737 * gawk.texi (grcat.c): Include stdlib.h. 738 (main): Fix format specifier warnings. 739 * gawk.texi (pwcat.c): Include config.h/stdlib.h. 740 (main): Fix format specifier warnings. 741 742Tue Jun 11 23:08:04 2002 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 743 744 * gawk.texi: Fix grcat code ifdef for HAVE_GETGRENT. 745 7462002-05-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> 747 748 [ ADR: Some minor post-patch editing was required. ] 749 750 * gawk.texi (igawk): Do not put temporary files in /tmp, as that 751 has some security problems. This fixes a problem originally 752 reported by Jarno Huuskonen via solar@openwall.com. 753 754 Fix the following problems with igawk while we're at it. 755 756 * Report missing operands of options; this fixes e.g. an 757 infinite loop with "igawk -W". 758 759 * Check for --source and -Wsource only, not -.source (which matches 760 errors). Similarly for other multichar options. 761 762 * Do not use 'echo', as that mishandles backslashes. 763 764Mon May 13 01:25:40 2002 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 765 766 * gawkinet.texi: Change `ifinfo' to `ifnottex' around 767 the Top node. Thanks to Eli Zaretskii. 768 769Wed May 1 16:41:32 2002 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 770 771 * Release 3.1.1: Release tar file made. 772 773Tue Apr 16 13:26:13 2002 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 774 775 * gawk.texi: FINALLY. All O'Reilly production and 776 indexing changes integrated. Index reviewed and 777 cleaned up. 778 * gawkinet.texi: Ditto. 779 * awkcard.in: Redid page breaking. 780 * Makefile.am (clean): Add `awkcard.tr' to list of files 781 that are removed. 782 (distclean): Depend on clean to REALLY GET `awkcard.tr'. 783 Sheesh. 784 785Mon Apr 15 14:43:51 2002 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 786 787 * texinfo.tex: Updated to version from Texinfo 4.2. 788 * gawk.texi: Modified to use new @copying command. 789 * gawkinet.texi: Ditto. 790 791Wed Mar 20 17:07:50 2002 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 792 793 * texinfo.tex: Updated to version from Texinfo 4.1. 794 7952002-02-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> 796 797 * gawk.texi (Word Sorting): Don't use sort +1, as POSIX 1003.1-2001 798 no longer allows it. Use sort -k instead. 799 8002002-01-27 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> 801 802 * gawk.texi: Document the dcngettext function. 803 * awkcard.in: Likewise. 804 * gawk.1: Likewise. 805 806Mon Jan 28 18:41:02 2002 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 807 808 * gawkinet.texi, Makefile.am: Removed User Friendly cartoon. 809 Sigh. 810 811Wed Dec 19 16:00:39 2001 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> 812 813 * gawk.texi (Profiling): Describe the signals used for profile 814 dumping in the DJGPP version. 815 816Mon Sep 3 18:30:13 2001 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 817 818 * gawk.texi (Top): Put in @ifnottex so that makeinfo 819 --html is now happy. 820 821Sun Jun 3 13:04:44 2001 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 822 823 * Release 3.1.0: Release tar file made. And there was 824 rejoicing. 825 826Mon May 14 19:57:31 2001 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 827 828 * gawk.texi, gawkinet.texi: Versions for distribution 829 put in place. 830 * gawk.1, awkcard.in: Minor edits for consistency of 831 usage, formatting. 832 833Wed Nov 22 14:57:59 2000 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 834 835 * gawk.texi, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Removed all documentation 836 of abort. 837 838Sun Aug 13 11:23:50 2000 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 839 840 * gawk.texi, gawk.1, awkcard.in: documented sort function 841 and optional third argument to match. 842 843Sun Aug 13 00:40:41 2000 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 844 845 * gawk.texi: hardwired publisher info. 846 * publisher.texi: Removed. Not needed any more. 847 * gawkinet.texi: Added title page stuff. 848 849Thu Jul 5 21:05:57 2000 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 850 851 * gawk.texi: moved to use of @command, @option everywhere 852 appropriate. Removed all @page and @group in anticipation 853 of re-page breaking. Updated stuff for install-info. 854 Added FDL. 855 856Tue Nov 10 11:42:26 1998 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@gnu.org> 857 858 * publisher.texi: new file with publisher related info. 859 * Makefile.in: updated dvi and postscript targets to make 860 them lots smarter about not reformatting if need be. 861 862Mon Aug 7 15:23:00 2000 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 863 864 * Release 3.0.6: Release tar file made. 865 866Sun Jun 25 15:08:19 2000 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 867 868 * Release 3.0.5: Release tar file made. 869 870Wed May 17 19:04:54 2000 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 871 872 * gawk.texi, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Documented %u. Ooops. 873 874Tue May 2 11:44:13 2000 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 875 876 * texinfo.tex: Updated to version 1999-10-01.07. 877 * gawk.texi: Redid page breaking for new texinfo.tex. 878 879Thu Apr 6 12:32:49 2000 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 880 881 * gawk.texi: Change info dir file entry to `(gawk)' from 882 `(gawk.info)'. 883 * Makefile.in [$(infodir)/gawk.info]: Fix grep test is 884 accordance with above. 885 886Sun Feb 13 15:36:32 2000 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> 887 888 * gawk.texi: Mention that arithmetic is done in double 889 precision floating point, and point to Goldberg's paper for 890 people who want to know more. Fix some other minor floating 891 point discussion issues. 892 893Wed Nov 3 17:04:35 1999 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 894 895 * gawk.1: Lots of troff ``lint'' from Paul Eggert. Not all 896 of his changes, just the ones I thought worth doing. 897 898Mon Oct 11 16:53:54 1999 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 899 900 * Makefile.in (gawk.dvi): Put $(srcdir) first in TEXINPUTS, 901 and also just use texi2dvi, don't run texindex and tex 902 manually. Doing so is no longer necessary. 903 904Mon Aug 9 13:06:01 1999 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 905 906 * gawk.texi: New node `Array Efficiency' on the best use 907 of subscripting to avoid memory bloat. 908 909Thu Jul 29 23:15:34 1999 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> 910 911 * Makefile.in ($(infodir)/gawk.info): Removed loop around 912 $(INSTALL_DATA), since there's only one Info file to install, 913 install it directly. 914 915Wed Jun 30 16:14:36 1999 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@gnu.org> 916 917 * Release 3.0.4: Release tar file made. This time for sure. 918 919Wed Oct 7 21:59:33 1998 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@gnu.org> 920 921 * texinfo.tex: Updated to version 2.227, from Texinfo 3.12. 922 923Sun Oct 19 12:26:08 1997 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@gnu.org> 924 925 * ALL: change references to arnold@gnu.ai.mit.edu to arnold@gnu.org. 926 927Tue Sep 23 10:31:17 1997 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@gnu.org> 928 929 * texinfo.tex: Updated to version 2.218, from Texinfo 3.11. 930 931Fri Jul 4 08:19:00 1997 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@gnu.org> 932 933 * Makefile.in ($(infodir)/gawk.info): Don't make dependent upon 934 gawk.info, in case installed one is newer. Instead, check that 935 an installed gawk.info exists and is identical to current one. 936 If so, just exit; otherwise do the install. 937 938Wed Jul 2 14:55:12 1997 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@gnu.org> 939 940 * Makefile.in ($(infodir)/gawk.info): typo fix. 941 942Thu May 15 12:49:08 1997 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us> 943 944 * Release 3.0.3: Release tar file made. 945 946Fri Apr 18 07:55:47 1997 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us> 947 948 * BETA Release 3.0.34: Release tar file made. 949 950Sun Apr 13 15:39:20 1997 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us> 951 952 * Makefile.in ($(infodir)/gawk.info): exit 0 in case install-info 953 fails. 954 955Thu Jan 2 23:17:53 1997 Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com> 956 957 * Makefile.in (awkcard.tr): Use ':' chars to separate parts of 958 sed command, since $(srcdir) may expand to something with '/' 959 characters in it, which confuses sed terribly. 960 * gawk.texi (Amiga Installation): Note change of configuration 961 from "m68k-cbm-amigados" to "m68k-amigaos". Point ftp users 962 towards current ADE distribution and not obsolete Aminet 963 "gcc" distribution. Change "FreshFish" to "Geek Gadgets". 964 965Wed Dec 25 11:25:22 1996 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us> 966 967 * Release 3.0.2: Release tar file made. 968 969Wed Dec 25 11:17:32 1996 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us> 970 971 * Makefile.in ($(mandir)/igawk$(manext),$(mandir)/gawk$(manext)): 972 remove chmod command; let $(INSTALL_DATA) use -m. 973 974Tue Dec 17 22:38:28 1996 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us> 975 976 * Makefile.in (gawk.info,gawk.dvi,postscript): run makeinfo, TeX, 977 and/or troff against files in $(srcdir). Thanks to Ulrich Drepper. 978 ($(infodir)/gawk.info): use --info-dir to install-info, not 979 --infodir. 980 981Tue Dec 10 23:09:26 1996 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us> 982 983 * Release 3.0.1: Release tar file made. 984 985Mon Dec 9 12:48:54 1996 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us> 986 987 * no.colors: new file from Michal for old troffs. 988 * Makefile.in [AWKCARD]: changes to parameterize old/new troff. 989 990Sun Dec 1 15:04:56 1996 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us> 991 992 * texinfo.tex: Updated to version 2.193, from Karl Berry. 993 994Tue Nov 26 22:57:15 1996 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us> 995 996 * Makefile.in ($(infodir)/gawk.info): Change option in call 997 to `install-info' to `--info-dir' from `--infodir'. 998 999Mon Nov 4 13:30:39 1996 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us> 1000 1001 * Makefile.in: updates for reference card. 1002 (ad.block, awkcard.in, cardfonts, colors, macros, setter.outline): 1003 new files for reference card. 1004 1005Wed Oct 16 12:43:02 1996 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us> 1006 1007 * texinfo.tex: Updated to version 2.185, from texinfo-3.9 dist. 1008 1009Sun Aug 11 23:12:08 1996 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us> 1010 1011 * Makefile.in ($(infodir)/gawk.info): correct use of 1012 $(INSTALL_DATA) and remove chmod command. 1013 1014Thu Jul 11 22:06:50 1996 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us> 1015 1016 * Makefile.in ($(mandir)/gawk.$(ext), $(mandir)/igawk.$(ext)): 1017 made dependant on files in $(srcdir). 1018 1019Fri Mar 15 06:45:35 1996 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us> 1020 1021 * Makefile.in (clean): add `*~' to list of files to be removed. 1022 1023Thu Jan 25 23:40:15 1996 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us> 1024 1025 * Makefile.in (dvi): run texindex and tex an extra time. 1026 This gets the cross references right. Sigh. 1027 1028Wed Jan 24 11:51:54 1996 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us> 1029 1030 * Makefile.in (maintainer-clean): 1031 Depend on distclean, not the other way around. 1032 Output warning message as per GNU standards. 1033