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@@ -3,7 +3,29 @@ Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. + +Changes from 4.0.1 to 4.1 +------------------------- +1. The three executables gawk, pgawk, and dgawk, have been merged into + one, named just gawk. As a result: + * The -R option is gone + * Use -D to run the debugger. An optional file argument is a + list of commands to run first. + * Use -o to do pretty-printing only. + * Use -p to do profiling. + +2. The new -l option is used for loading dynamic extensions. +Changes from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 +--------------------------- + +1. The default handling of backslash in sub() and gsub() has been reverted to + the behavior of 3.1. It was silly to think I could break compatibility that + way, even for standards compliance. + +XXX. Lots of minor bugs fixed and portability clean-ups along the way. See + the ChangeLog for details. + Changes from 3.1.8 to 4.0.0 --------------------------- |