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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2018-08-27 08:05:05 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2018-08-27 08:05:05 +0300 |
| commit | dd8218e4c1f48c0e40fe1d8afa3f6f90e0fbab69 (patch) | |
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| parent | 005a8805a826a03c66640ea237af69453f2febd1 (diff) | |
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Document %a/%A is also for BWK awk.
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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index a0c8184f..5d09951d 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 |