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authorArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2012-08-10 11:53:37 +0300
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Doc updates. Mostly about the API.
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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
. if \w'\(rq' .ds rq "\(rq
. \}
.\}
-.TH GAWK 1 "Nov 10 2011" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands"
+.TH GAWK 1 "Aug 09 2012" "Free Software Foundation" "Utility Commands"
.SH NAME
gawk \- pattern scanning and processing language
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -3181,24 +3181,11 @@ may be used in place of
.SH DYNAMICALLY LOADING NEW FUNCTIONS
You can dynamically add new built-in functions to the running
.I gawk
-interpreter.
+interpreter with the
+.B @load
+statement.
The full details are beyond the scope of this manual page;
-see \*(EP for the details.
-.PP
-.TP 8
-\fBextension(\fIobject\fB, \fIfunction\fB)\fR
-Dynamically link the shared object file named by
-.IR object ,
-and invoke
-.I function
-in that object, to perform initialization.
-These should both be provided as strings.
-Return the value returned by
-.IR function .
-.PP
-Using this feature at the C level is not pretty, but
-it is unlikely to go away. Additional mechanisms may
-be added at some point.
+see \*(EP.
.SH SIGNALS
The
.I gawk
@@ -3727,7 +3714,7 @@ status is 2. On non-POSIX systems, this value may be mapped to
.SH VERSION INFORMATION
This man page documents
.IR gawk ,
-version 4.0.
+version 4.1.
.SH AUTHORS
The original version of \*(UX
.I awk
@@ -3805,6 +3792,7 @@ While the
developers occasionally read this newsgroup, posting bug reports there
is an unreliable way to report bugs. Instead, please use the electronic mail
addresses given above.
+Really.
.PP
If you're using a GNU/Linux or BSD-based system,
you may wish to submit a bug report to the vendor of your distribution.
@@ -3824,6 +3812,7 @@ are surprisingly difficult to diagnose in the completely general case,
and the effort to do so really is not worth it.
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR egrep (1),
+.IR sed (1),
.IR getpid (2),
.IR getppid (2),
.IR getpgrp (2),
@@ -3839,7 +3828,7 @@ Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger,
Addison-Wesley, 1988. ISBN 0-201-07981-X.
.PP
\*(EP,
-Edition 4.0, shipped with the
+Edition 4.1, shipped with the
.I gawk
source.
The current version of this document is available online at