path: root/doc/ChangeLog.1

2019-04-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2019-04-05          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Add a missing word.

2019-03-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawkinet.texi: Small formatting fixes.  Update  version
and dates.

2019-03-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: More minor fixes.          * wordlist: Up-
dated.

2019-03-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Update master menu.

2019-03-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Regexp Operators):  Refactor  a  bit  into
subsections,          mention  that  BWK awk now has interval ex-
pressions.

2019-02-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Fix a spelling error, change update month.
        *  gawkworkflow.texi:  Small  fixes.          * wordlist:
Updated.

2019-02-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2019-02-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Fix order of  values  for  PROCINFO["plat-
form"],          save  an  email in @ignore for possible eventual
inclusion.          * gawk.1: Correct values for  PROCINFO["plat-
form"].

2019-02-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Viewing  And Changing Data): Revise note
for eval         to list commands that are not allowed using it.

2019-02-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Fix wording for %f.          Thanks to Dan
Liddell <dan_liddell@mentor.com> for the catch.          (Viewing
And  Changing  Data):  Note  that  eval  has   problems   calling
        user-defined  functions  that  return  a value. Thanks to
        Lothar Langer <lotharla@gmail.com> for the report.

2019-02-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Don't use  `obalsebracesinindexestrue'  as
it's          no  longer  supported.          (Function Calling):
Renamed from `Function Caveats'.          (Function Caveats): New
node.           *  gawkinet.texi:  Don't  use  `obalsebracesinin-
dexestrue' as it's         no longer supported.

2019-02-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Fix some indexing with  too  many  commas.
        *   gawk.info:   Regenerated,   moved  to  makeinfo  6.5.
        * texinfo.tex: Updated.

2019-02-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.1: Some more minor edits.

2019-02-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *    Makefile.am     (EXTRA_DIST):     Add     wordlist3.
        (spellmanpage):  New target.          (spell): Add spell-
manpage to the list.          *  wordlist1:  Updated.           *
wordlist3:  New  file.           *  awkcard.in:  Finish cleanups.
        * gawk.1: Ditto.          * gawktexi.in: Fix small typo.

2019-02-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * awkcard.in: Start on cleanup edits.          *  gawk.1:
Ditto.           *  gawktexi.in:  Credit Nelson Beebe with gawk's
current         random number  generator.           *  gawk.texi,
gawk.info: Brought back into sync.

2019-01-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Update copyright dates
and         appropriate version numbers.

2019-01-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Namespaces): Add a  cautionary  note  that
the feature         is new and may still have dark corners and/or
bugs.

2019-01-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Finish up indexing changes.

2019-01-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: More work on the indexing.           Docu-
ment that `-f -' works to read source code from stdin.

2019-01-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Work on the indexing.

2019-01-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (I18N  Example): $LC_MESSAGES is involved
here         also. Document this.

2019-01-09         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Undocumented): Discuss typeof's optional
2nd argument.

2019-01-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (I18N Example): Add more explanation of how
to         make the directory to hold the .mo file.

2019-01-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Indexing fixes and small corrections.

2019-01-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Some small indexing fixes. Thanks to Anto-
nio         Giovanni Colombo for pointing them out.

2019-01-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: A few more fixes w.r.t. namespaces. Thanks
to          Antonio  Giovanni  Colombo for pointing out the prob-
lems.

2018-12-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: A few fixes w.r.t. namespaces.  Thanks  to
        Antonio Giovanni Colombo for pointing out the problems.

2018-12-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Added more indexing to the debugger chap-
ter.          Add more indexing to namespaces chapter, too.

2018-12-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Clean up some FIXMEs  and  other  improve-
ments.           * gawk.1: Mention that files read with -f and -i
and command          line  segments  all  implicitly  start  with
@namespace "awk".

2018-12-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Added more indexing to the debugger chap-
ter.

2018-11-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Auto-set): Document that you can no longer
use          arbitrary indices in SYMTAB.          * gawk.1: Dit-
to.

2018-12-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Added more indexing to the debugger  chap-
ter.

2018-11-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Other  Versions): Document GoAWK, an awk
interpreter         written in Go.

2018-11-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in  (Auto-set)  :  Update  values  of  PROCIN-
FO["platform"].          (PC Using): Add to BINMODE discussion to
always set it and         not worry about checking platforms. Per
discussion with the dev team.

2018-11-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Document  that split() third arg is like
FS, if it's         a single character, that character  is  used,
even  if  it's a         regexp metacharacter.          * gawk.1:
Ditto.          Thanks to R <0xef967c36@gmail.com>  for  the  re-
port.

2018-11-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Document PROCINFO["platform"].          *
gawk.1: Ditto.

2018-11-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Small typo fix.

2018-11-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Assignment Options):  Add  description  of
assigning         strongly typed regexp constants to variables.

2018-11-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in):  Small  typo  fixes.  Thanks  to Antonio
        Giovanni Colombo for pointing them out.

2018-11-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Profiling): Review and update.

2018-10-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Arrays  of  Arrays):  Typo  fix  in  code.
Thanks  to  Alto Tom         <alto.tom@gmail.com> for the report.
        (Usenet): Small edit.

2018-10-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Usenet): Mention that web forums are  also
not         the right place for gawk bug reports.

2018-10-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *   gawktexi.in  (Bug  address):  Mention  the  GNU  Kind
        Communications Guidelines, with  URL.           *  texin-
fo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2018-10-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Profiling):  Revise  example for pattern
without         action and note that the  profiler  distinguishes
`print' and         `print $0'.

2018-09-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in (Extracting): Note that patch levels above
        60 are beta software, instead of above 70.

2018-09-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Update UPDATE_MONTH.

2018-09-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * Makefile.in: Regenerated, using Automake 1.16.1.

2018-08-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Other Versions): Updated info on BWK  awk.
        *  gawktexi.in  (Control  Letters): Note that BWK awk now
also         supports %a/%A.

2018-08-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: A number of unrelated  updates.  Most  no-
tably,          removed  the  section on old extensions which has
been irrelevant         since 4.2.0. Oops.

2018-08-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Scalar Constants): Fix typos in example.

2018-07-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Scalar Constants): Document  what  happens
with         physical newlines in strings, escaped and otherwise.

2018-07-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Two-way I/O): Fix some typos.          *
gawkworkflow.texi (Configuring git): Correct some         command
usages. Thanks to Antonio Colombo for the fix.

2018-07-31         Ralph Corderoy        <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>

        * gawk.1: Avoid hyphenation in gawk email address.

2018-07-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Two-way  I/O):  Add  a  nice  example on
buffering         and ptys from Andrew Schorr.

2018-07-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Control Letters): Add a note about  output
of  NaN  and          INF  values  with an xref to POSIX Floating
Point Problems.          (POSIX  Floating  Point  Problems):  De-
scribe  that  gawk  also outputs the         four special strings
for NaN and INF values.

2018-06-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Updated.

2018-06-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Records, gawk split records): More  expla-
nation          of how RS works when it's longer than one charac-
ter. Thanks         to Andrew Schorr for  most  of  the  wording.
        * wordlist: Updated.

2018-06-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in (awk split records): Document that even if
the         single character in RS  is  a  regexp  metacharacter,
it's         treated literally. Per suggestion from Ed Morton.

2018-06-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in (Extract Program): Remove an obsolete sen-
tence.          Thanks to Andrew Giovanni Colombo for pointing it
out.

2018-05-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (String  Functions): Clean up and clarify
the         prose  description  of  gensub().  Thanks  to  Andrew
Schorr         for the encouragement (back in 2016...).

2018-05-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Extract  Program): Additional bug fixes.
Close         the last file processed, and use the index  of  the
for  loop          which  is  the  filename  as  the  argument to
close()!

2018-05-28         Bjarni Ingi Gislason  <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>

        * gawk.1: Change two-fonts macros to one-font macros  for
a         single argument.

2018-05-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in (Extract Program): Bug fix. Keep the files
open         in case one program's bits are intermixed  with  an-
other's.          Then close them all at the end.  Bug report was
about         indirectcall.awk but affected another file as well.
Thanks         to Ramasahayam Reddy <rureddy57@gmail.com> for the
report.

2018-05-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Auto-Set): For PROCINFO["sorted_in"], make
the xref         point to the right place. Reported by David Kas-
par          <dkaspar@redhat.com>   from   downstream   bugzilla:
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1581434

2018-05-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Bitwise Functions): Use @asis in the table
to         get brackets for optional stuff to come out in Roman.

2018-05-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Bracket Expressions):  Document  the  full
list          of  characters  in  [:space:].  Thanks  to  Jannick
<thirdedition@gmx.net>         for  the  suggestion.   Also  note
that  current  BWK  awk gets [:blank:]         wrong, treating it
like [:space:].

2018-04-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.1: Minor edit in the man page.  Thanks  to  Howard
        Johnson <hj@HowardJohnson.name> for the report.

2018-04-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Updated.

2018-03-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in,  gawk.1: Remove mention of tail recursion
        optimization from documentation on -O.

2018-03-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Document  %a  and  %A.
        * wordlist, wordlist2: Updated.

2018-03-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawkworkflow.texi: Fix update month.

2018-02-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * 4.2.1: Release tar ball made.

2018-02-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *   gawktexi.in:  Update  UPDATE-MONTH.           *  awk-
card.in: Update tar ball version and copyright year.

2018-02-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Updated.

2018-02-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Further fix to NONFATAL stuff.  Thanks  to
        Antonio Giovanni Colombo for the report.

2018-02-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Fix NONFATAL stuff to cover input redirec-
tions too.

2018-02-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.1: Fix NONFATAL stuff to cover input  redirections
too.

2018-02-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Clarify binary mode is default on Cygwin,
        improve section on using on PCs to  refer  to  MinGW  and
DJGPP.          Thanks for the report to a contributor who wishes
to         remain anonymous.

2018-01-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * wordlist: Updated.

2018-01-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (AWKLIBPATH Variable): Add note that chang-
ing          ENVIRON["AWKLIBPATH"]  won't affect the running pro-
gram.  Thanks  to          Neil  R.  Ormos  <ormos-gnulists17@or-
mos.org> for the suggestion.

2018-01-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *   gawktexi.in   (gawkextlib):   Update   discussion  of
gawkextlib.          Add  not  about  json  extension,  and  just
present  the  list  as         describing some of the extensions,
since there are now too         many to try to keep up  with  all
of them.

2018-01-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Update gnu.org and fsf.org URLs to https.
OK'd         by the FSF.

2018-01-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Remove incorrect '*' on some  declarations
of          ext_id  in sample extension code. Thanks to Panos Pa-
padopoulos           <panos1962@gmail.com>   for   the    report.
        * texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2018-01-08          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Checking for MPFR): Add warnings about ex-
it's processing         of END rules.

2018-01-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Update  copryight  year,  and some small
cleanups.

2018-01-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Setting the rounding mode): Add a  sidebar
        with  sample  code  (courtesy  of  <nethox@gmail.com>) to
        demonstrate how ROUNDMODE affects number to  string  con-
version.

2017-12-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  texinfo.tex:  Updated.           * gawktexi.in (How To
Contribute): Update to point to         awklang.org.

2017-12-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Updated.

2017-12-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in  (Additional  Configuration  Options):  Add
        description  of  the --enable-versioned-extension-dir op-
tion.

2017-12-01         Sergey Tselikh     <stselikh@gmail.com>

        * gawktexi.in:  Several  small  changes  to  gawktexi.in,
        mainly  related  to  fixing  typos,  small text polishing
        and adding @group/@end group in  @example  and  @example-
like          constructs to clean PDF version (formatted for Let-
ter paper,         which is the default) of orphaned single lines
of  source  code          or  example  output in higher and lower
parts of pages (such         lines were with just a "}", or  with
a  single  line  of code or         a comment).  Hyphenated words
"single-precision",         "double-precision" and alike left un-
touched.

2017-12-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Add a note to add a section on recursion.
        Thanks to  Bill  Duncan  <bduncan@beachnet.org>  for  the
        suggestion.           *  gawktexi.in: Add a missing DARK-
CORNER indicator and         a few missing dark corner index  en-
tries.  Remove the note         at the end to check that all dark
corners are indexed and         instead make it part of the  list
of consistency checks.

2017-11-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawkworkflow.texi (General practices): Use correct op-
tion         --delete for deleting a branch upstream, instead  of
-d.

2017-11-21          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Setting the Rounding Mode):  Fix  the  de-
scription         of ROUNDMODE "A": it uses MPFR_RNDA mode, which
rounds away from zero,         not "Round to nearest,  ties  away
from  zero".           *  gawk.1  (ROUNDMODE): Fix description of
"A".

2017-11-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Changes from  API  V1):  Give  a  list  of
things          that changed, with xrefs. Thanks to Andrew Schorr
for the push.

2017-11-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (For Statement): Small clarification in the
text.

2017-11-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in (General Data Types): Move AWK_NUMBER_TYPE
        enum out to top level, corresponding to code change.

2017-10-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * 4.2.0: Release tar ball made.

2017-10-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (EDITION): Update to 4.2. Also, remove  all
visible          references  to  http://awk.info;  that  site  no
longer exists.

2017-10-17         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        Update  docs to indicate that isarray is not deprected in
this release.

        * awkcard.in: Remove "Deprecated" notice  under  isarray.
        *  gawk.1:  Remove deprecated warning under isarray docu-
mentation.          *  gawkexti.in:  Remove  sentence  indicating
that  isarray  is  deprecated         and recommending typeof in-
stead.

2017-10-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * awkcard.in: Add @namespaces to Execution section.

2017-10-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.1: Documents  namespaces.           *  awkcard.in:
Ditto.

2017-10-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Readfile Function): Fix the code for the
naive         function to be syntactically and semantically  cor-
rect.  Thanks  to         Jaromir Obr <jaromir.obr@gmail.com> for
the report.          (POSIX String Comparison): Add some URL ref-
erences in @ignore.

        Unrelated:

        *  gawktexi.in:  Remove description of --with-whiny-user-
strftime         configuration option.

2017-10-08         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Fix  discussion of AWKPATH in section on
@include.

2017-10-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Update the update month to October.

2017-10-02         Antonio Giovanni Colombo   <azc100@gmail.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Two typo fixes.

2017-10-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Add pointer to mawk 2.0 GitHub page.

2017-10-01         Antonio Giovanni Colombo   <azc100@gmail.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Update many  URLs  to  https.  Some  other
small fixes.

2017-10-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  awkcard.in:  One more small change.          * gawk.1:
Brought up to date and polished a  bit.           *  gawktexi.in:
Some small additional fixes.

2017-09-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * awkcard.in: Finish changes (we hope) for next release.

2017-09-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  ad.block:  Change  FSF  URL  to https.          * awk-
card.in: First round of changes for next release.

2017-09-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Change  GNU  URLs  to  use  `https://...'.
        Revise UPDATE_MONTH.          * texinfo.tex: Updated.

2017-09-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Change 'namespace' to 'name_space' where
it matters         for C++ compatibility.

2017-09-13         David Kaspar          <dkaspar@redhat.com>

        *   gawktexi.in:   Fix   the   dir   entry.             *
gawkinet.texi: Allow calling as `info awktexi'.

2017-09-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Installation  summary): Note OS/2 exists
for PCs         in a comment.

2017-08-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Contributors):  Update  entry  for  Steven
Davies.

2017-08-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  texinfo.tex:  Updated.  Fixes  table of contents issue
        with very long title.          * gawktexi.in: Slight  re-
arranging of order of things that         happened in 4.2.  Minor
cleanups related to Scott Deifik.

2017-08-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Updated. Fixes  table  of  contents  issue
        with Part header.

2017-08-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Document Marco Curreli's contribution of
        the Italian translation, along with Antonio Colombo.

2017-08-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Update history of features  appendix  sec-
tion.          * wordlist, worldlist2: Add more words.

2017-08-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in,  gawk.1,  awkcard.in: Update versions and
        copyright years, prepatory to starting a release spiral.

2017-08-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Update API chapter with info  about  addi-
tions         for accessing and/or creating MPZ and MPFR values.

2017-08-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Updated.

2017-08-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Namespace Summary): Add summary to name-
space         chapter.

2017-08-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Update with  info  about  DJGPP  port  now
        being supported.

2017-07-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Type  Functions):  Improve  the  example
        for untyped  variables.           (Extension  Exercises):
Remove  the  exercise  that talks         about namespaces, since
it's no longer relevant.

2017-07-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Extension Sample Inplace):  Apply  GPL  to
        inplace.awk;  should  have  done  that  when it was first
        added. Oops.

2017-07-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Namespaces): More edits.

2017-07-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Fix a spelling error.          * wordlist:
Update with more words.

        Done also for namespace material.

2017-07-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Extension Sample Inplace): Rework to use
the         "inplace" namespace.

        * gawktexi.in  (Namespace  And  Features):  Renamed  from
        `Namespace  Misc' and reworked.          (Symbol table by
name): Add note about namespace and         component name  rules
with xref to section in Namespaces chapter.

2017-07-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in (Namespaces): Cleanup, new section on nam-
ing rules         added.

2017-07-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Namespaces): Revised password suite  exam-
ple.           (Symbol  table by name): Add entries for namespace
versions         of lookup and update routines.

2017-07-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Namespaces): More updates. Especially that
        reserved  words are not allowed in either half of a fully
        qualified name or as a namespace.

2017-07-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Namespaces): More updates.

2017-07-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Pull in latest from Texinfo SVN.

2017-06-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Namespaces): Move to later in the book.

2017-06-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Namespaces): More minor doc edits.

2017-06-19         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Memory  Allocation  Functions and Conve-
nience Macros):         Document new ezalloc API macro.

2017-06-18         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawkworkflow.texi: Fix typo.

2017-06-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Expand  tab characters.          * gawk-
texi.in  (Namespaces):  Further  minor   doc   edits,   including
        hyphenation hint.

2017-06-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in (Namespaces): Document that reserved words
and         predefined functions can be namespace names  but  can
be  in         the second part of a fully qualified name. (Design
decision         change.)

2017-06-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Namespaces): Document that reserved  words
and         predefined functions can't be namespace names. Refor-
mat the         input a little bit.

2017-06-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Namespaces): Further clarifications.  Move
to         `::' as the namespace separator.

2017-06-05          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Checking for MPFR): Fix typo.

2017-06-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Namespaces): Fixes in passwd.awk  example.
Document          that  indirect calls with an unadorned name as-
sume "awk" namespace.

2017-05-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Initial doc on namespaces. Serves as a de-
sign         right now.          * gawktexi.in: More doc added.

2017-05-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Document PROCINFO["argv"].

2017-05-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Checking for MPFR): New node on checking
if         gawk was invoked with -M.

2017-05-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Document FIELDWIDTHS much better,  includ-
ing  how         it works in corner cases. Some general organiza-
tional improvements         in this chunk of text.

2017-04-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Improve documentation of --source option.

2017-04-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Document --disable-mpfr configure option.

2017-04-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  awkcard.in:  Comment  out  description  of   intdiv().
        *  gawk.1:  Ditto.           * gawktexi.in: References to
intdiv changed to intdiv0  and          bracketed  inside  @ifset
INTDIV. Not set by default.

2017-04-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Improve  documentation  of  the intdiv()
function.

2017-04-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * it: New directory with Italian translation of the manu-
al.          * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add `it' and wordlist2.

2017-04-12         Manuel Collado        <m-collado@users.source-
forge.net>

        * gawktexi.in, gawk.1: Small clarification  of  the  pat-
split behavior.

2017-04-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Minor style edits.

2017-04-10          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Document FIELDWIDTHS enhancement  to  sup-
port  an optional         field skip prefix. Document new PROCIN-
FO["FS"]   value   "API".            Document   new    get_record
field_width argument that enables the API         parser to over-
ride the default field parsing mechanism.

2017-04-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * using-git.texi: Removed.          *  gawkworkflow.texi:
Added. New file.          * wordlist2: New file.          * Make-
file.am: Revised for new document. Copyright years updated.

        *  gawkworkflow.texi:  Fix  some  spelling  errors.   :-(
        *  wordlist2:  Updated.          * Makefile.am: Fix spell
checking. :-(

2017-03-22         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawk.1: Document new PROCINFO["FS"] value "API".

2017-03-22          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * awkcard.in: Document FIELDWIDTHS enhancement to support
an optional         field skip prefix.          * gawk.1: Ditto.

2017-03-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Improve  the  discussion  of  quoting on
        MS-Windows. Original text contributed by          Vincent
Belaiche <vincent.belaiche@gmail.com>.

2017-03-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Additional small writing tip in the notes
        after the @bye.

2017-03-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Edits preparatory to release.

2017-02-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.1: "timezone" -->  "time  zone".           *  awk-
card.in: Update copyright year.

2017-02-21          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawk.1: Document new mktime optional 2nd utc-flag argu-
ment.           * gawktexi.in: Ditto.          * awkcard.in: Dit-
to.

2017-02-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Fix two  typos.           *  wordlist.txt:
Update.

        Related:

        *  gawktexi.in:  Fix more typos.          * wordlist.txt:
Update again.

2017-01-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Update UPDATE-MONTH and copyright years.

2017-01-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Comment out stuff  about  awk.info,  since
that         domain is now gone.

2016-12-05          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Explain  why  an  API  extension  function
might want         to use the AWK_STRNUM type to return data.

2016-12-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Update API table of type requested / type
returned.

2016-12-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Minor edits  after  merging  branches  and
some         additional work in the code.

2016-12-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Further API clarifications and edits, add
a         section on backwards compatibility.

2016-12-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Update  description  of   awk_ext_func_t
structure,         again.

2016-12-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *   gawktexi.in:  Update  description  of  awk_ext_func_t
structure.

2016-12-05         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Document strnum changes as relates to API.
        Still stuff left to do --  tables  for  type  conversions
need          to be updated to show new strnum and regex rows and
columns.

2016-12-04         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Remove  make_regex  and  replace it with
make_const_regex         and make_malloced_regex.

2016-12-04         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Document new flatten_array_typed API func-
tion, and         indicate that the  old  flatten_array  function
has been superseded.

2016-11-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Document typed regex changes as relates to
API.          Still stuff left to do.

2016-11-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Finish off discussion  of  strongly  typed
regexp          constants  and  put  it in the right place in the
manual. A few other         minor fixes.          * wordlist: Up-
dated.

2016-11-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in (Variable Typing): Rework and improve dis-
cussion         of strings, numbers,  and  strnums.   Update  de-
scription of strnum         in other places.

2016-11-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *   gawktexi.in:   Fix   example   use   of   dcngettext.
        Thanks to Sergey Tselikh <stselikh@gmail.com>         for
the report.

2016-11-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in,  wordlist:  Typo  fix. ECBDIC --> EBCDIC.
        Thanks to Sergey Tselikh <stselikh@gmail.com> for the re-
port.           (bitwise-ops):  Put table in @verbatim instead of
@display.          Works better for Info, text, and HTML.  Thanks
to          Marco  Curreli  <marcocurreli@tiscali.it> for the re-
port.

2016-11-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Fix a spelling error.          * wordlist:
Update.

2016-10-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Document that negative arguments are not
allowed         for bitwise functions. Add a  sidebar  explaining
it a bit and         also showing the difference with and without
-M.          * gawk.1: Document that negative arguments  are  not
allowed.

2016-10-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Remove  references  to  MS-DOS and OS/2,
        simplify the whole section on PC operating systems.

2016-10-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Bugs): Rework this section and break  into
        subsections,   mainly  to  emphasize  that  I  no  longer
        read comp.lang.awk.

2016-09-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Group  Functions):  Typo  fix.  Reported
        by  Jaromir  Obr  <jaromir.obr@gmail.com>.          (Time
Functions): Slightly enhance description of ISO 8601         def-
inition  of  first  and  last  weeks. Thanks to         Michel de
Ruiter <mdruiter@gmail.com> for the note.

2016-08-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (POSIX String Comparison): Update  for  new
        spec where == and != use strcmp, rest use strcoll. Thanks
to         Chet Ramey for pointing me at the new rules.

2016-08-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * 4.1.4: Release tar ball made.

2016-08-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * wordlist: Add more words.          *  gawktexi.in:  Fix
more typos.

2016-08-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  Makefile.am  (EXTRA_DIST):  Add  new  file,  wordlist.
        (spell):  New  target.           *  wordlist:  New  file.
        *  gawktexi.in: Fix typos, adjust update date.          *
awkcard.in: Update copyright years.

2016-08-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        Restored doc on typed regexes.

        * gawk.1, gawktexi.in: Updated.

2016-08-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        Remove typed regexes until they can be done properly.

        * gawk.1, gawktexi.in: Updated.

2016-08-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Mark DJGPP port as unsupported.

2016-07-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Fix a typo. Thanks to  Marco  Curreli  for
reporting.

2016-07-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Document return value of close on a pipe
now like         that of system: exit status, status  +  256  for
signal, or         status + 512 for signal with core dump.

2016-07-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Fix a typo. Thanks to Antonio Colombo for
reporting.

2016-07-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Document GAWK_LOCALE_DIR env var and  also
to not         use LANGUAGE env var.

2016-07-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Auto-set):  Add  example use of multiply
function.

2016-06-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.1: Typo fix. Thanks to  Antonio  Giovanni  Colombo
        for noticing.

2016-06-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *   gawk.1:  Document  typeof(),  update  modified  date.
        * awkcard.in: Document typeof().

2016-06-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Fix a typo, and replace  hard-coded  "sec-
tion"  with          @value{SECTION} where appropriate. Thanks to
Antonio         Giovanni Colombo for the  reports.           (UP-
DATE-MONTH,   PATCHLEVEL):  Update  to  current  before  release.
        * awkcard.in: Update version.

2016-05-30         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Replace num_expected_args with max_expect-
ed_args.          Explain what it's used for.

2016-05-25              Manuel      Collado              <mcolla-
do2011@gmail.com>.

        * gawktexi.in: Document new 'nonfatal' API function.

2016-05-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Typo fix in extension section, thanks to
         Manuel Collado <mcollado2011@gmail.com>.

2016-05-02         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Document  new  CPP  defines gawk_api_ma-
jor_version and         gawk_api_minor_version.

2016-04-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawkinet.texi: Some general cleanups. Remove stuff com-
mented          out  since 2001, index RFCs, change function name
convention to         match main gawktexi.in. Update  the  update
month.

2016-04-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Two-way I/O): Document that writing to the
closed         write end of a two way pipe or  reading  from  the
closed read end         can be made nonfatal.

2016-04-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in,  gawkinet.texi:  Enable  use of braces in
        indexes. Requires Texinfo 6.0 or later.

2016-04-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Two-way I/O): Document  that  closing  the
"from"          end  waits  for  the process to exit, so it's not
such a great idea.

2016-03-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawkinet.texi: Small update about end of line  vs  full
        comments when pretty printing.

2016-03-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawkinet.texi: Update UDP client and discussion, update
        modification dates and gawk versions.

2016-03-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Improve system() return values  documenta-
tion.

2016-03-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *   gawktexi.in:   Document   system()   return   values.
        * gawk.1: Add a pointer to the manual about same.

2016-02-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * sidebar.awk: Globally replace [[:space:]] with [  ]  so
that          it  will  work with old versions of mawk (as found,
boo!, on many          Debian-based  distributions).   Thanks  to
Yehezkel Bernat for         discovering and reporting the issue.

2016-02-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Bracket  Expressions):  Add a small note
about         Unicode in bracket expressions.

2016-02-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Fixes in wc.awk and in cut.awk. Thanks  to
David Ward,         dlward134@gmail.com.  Added an example of use
of  rewind(),  also          per  suggestion  from  David   Ward.
        *   gawktexi.in:  Update  info  about  Texinfo  versions.
        * gawktexi.in (Limitations): Fix Heisenberg Physics exam-
ple  and         spelling of Heisenberg's name. Thanks to Hermann
Peifer.

2016-02-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Revise  for  use   with   Texinfo   6.1.
        Remove  `  @c'  at  the end of inline docbook constructs.
        Remove  special  @DB*REF  macros,  not  needed   anymore.
        Use @sup for superscripts where possible.          * tex-
info.tex: Updated.

2016-02-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Document that optimization in  now  the  de-
fault,          there  are  new -s/--no-optimize options and that
        pretty-printing  and  profiling   disable   optimization.
        * gawk.1: Ditto.          * awkcard.in: Ditto.

2016-02-03          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Command-Line Options): Change  wording  of
-M  description          to  say  "Select"  instead  of  "Force".
        (Arbitrary-Precision  Arithmetic  Features):  Tweak   the
wording to make         it clear that MPFR is not used unless the
-M option is supplied.

2016-02-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (VMS Running): Improve the Texinfo usage.

2016-01-31         John E. Malmberg     <wb8tyw@qsl.net>

        * gawktexi.in (VMS Running): Add instructions on  how  to
redirect         gawk data to a VMS command.

2016-01-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Bracket Expressions): Document that '[',
'.' and          '*'  are  literal  inside  bracket  expressions.
        (Two-way I/O): Add stuff about stdbuf and deadlocks.

2016-01-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Array  Sorting  Functions): Clean up the
code some,         per suggestion from Michal Jaegermann. Tighten
up the prose         a bit too.

2016-01-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * ChangeLog: Remove spurious whitespace.

        Unrelated:

        *  gawk.1:  Restore  text on PROCINFO["RETRY"] and fix up
the         formatting while we're at it. Thanks to Andrew Schorr
for         pointing out the problem.

2016-01-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Array Sorting Functions): Add an example
of         using a function name with asort().  Response  to  bug
report         Stephane Goujet <stephane.goujet@wanadoo.fr>.

2016-01-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Finish  documenting  that --pretty-print
        doesn't run the program. Thanks to  Antonio          Gio-
vanni Colombo for the report and patch.

2016-01-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Document  that  GNU/Linux on Alpha is no
        longer supported.

2015-12-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Fix some @c  endfile.  Thanks  to  Antonio
        Giovanni Colombo for the report and patch.

2015-12-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Add PROCINFO["NONFATAL"] to the list for
PROCINFO.          * gawk.1: Ditto.

2015-12-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.1: Update description of  PROCINFO,  and  sort  it
properly.          * gawktexi.in: Ditto.

2015-11-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Add  "exit" as synonym for "quit" in the
        debugger.   Suggested  by  Joep   van   Delft   <joepvan-
delft@xs4all.nl>.

2015-11-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Minor edits.          * gawk.1: Revise to
maximum of two digits.

2015-11-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * Makefile.am (pdf-local): Remove igawk.1.pdf. Ooops.

2015-10-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * Makefile.am (awkcard.ps): Add options  to  force  paper
size          to  letter.  This makes the cut marks come out cor-
rectly even         if groff's default paper size is a4.

2015-10-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.1: Put commas outside quoting in regexps to  avoid
        confusion. Thanks to Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>.

2015-10-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * awkcard.in: Fix tbl complaint.

2015-10-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Updated to a working version.

2015-10-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  texinfo.tex:  Revert  update.  It  stopped  working. I
should learn         to test these things. Thanks to Antonio Gio-
vanni Colombo for         the report.

2015-10-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Note that there is no support for SSL.

2015-09-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Update to latest.

2015-08-28      Daniel Richard G.       <skunk@iSKUNK.ORG>

        *  doc/gawktexi.in: Check for the "struct passwd.pw_pass-
wd" and         "struct group.gr_passwd" fields and  conditional-
ize  their  use,  as         they don't exist on z/OS.          *
Makefile.am (pdf-local): Renamed from "pdf", as Automake  already
        defines "pdf" and warns us as much.

2015-08-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Typo fixes in Appendix A.          Thanks
to Antonio Colombo.

2015-07-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Small typo fix; thanks to Antonio  Colombo
        for noticing.

2015-07-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Update  info  on Quiktrim awk; thanks to
        Antonio Colombo for the pointer.

2015-06-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Limitations): Document that sometimes  the
        debugger    can    affect    the   program   being   run.
        Thanks to Hermann Peifer for the test case.

2015-06-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Update description of values  returned  by
typeof.

2015-06-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawkinet.info: Fix an old arnold@gnu.org.

2015-06-17          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Document inplace shortcomings --  it  does
not  preserve          ACLs, and it may leave temporary files be-
hind if killed by a signal.

2015-06-17         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Document new inplace variable to control
whether         inplace editing is active.

2015-06-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Comment out exercise 10.3, since  the  an-
swer          is  included in the text. Thanks to Antonio Colombo
        for pointing this out.

2015-06-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Add another pithy quote from  Chet  Ramey.
Currently         commented out.

2015-05-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Revised description of default field pars-
ing         for POSIX. Newline is now a separator  also.   Thanks
to         Michael Klement <michael.klement@usa.net> for pointing
this out.          * gawk.1: Updated too.

2015-05-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in  (Bitwise  Functions):  Update  results  of
testbits.awk.

2015-05-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * 4.1.3: Release tar ball made.

2015-05-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Bump  patch  level  and  modified  date.
        Move to modern version of @image.          * texinfo.tex:
Update  to  latest.          * array-elements.txt: Remove texinfo
commands.

2015-05-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Add a pithy quote from  Chet  Ramey.  Cur-
rently         commented out.

2015-05-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Fix description of nextfile within a func-
tion. Sigh.

2015-05-15         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Undocumented):  Describe the new PROCIN-
FO["argv"] array.

2015-05-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Bugs): Add that email should be  in  plain
        text and not in HTML.  Sigh.

2015-05-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Add doc on conversions for strongly typed
        regexp variables.

2015-05-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Add  initial  documentation  for  strongly
typed         regexps and for `typeof'.

2015-04-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * 4.1.2: Release tar ball made.

2015-04-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Undocumented): More info added.

2015-04-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Update feature history section.

2015-04-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Add a minor note to revisit FPAT pattern
for CSV         files at some point.

2015-04-05         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Replace http://gawkextlib.sourceforge.net
with          http://sourceforge.net/projects/gawkextlib,   since
the  former  link          contains  obsolete  info.   Update the
gawkextlib build instructions         to point to  http://source-
forge.net/projects/gawkextlib/files for the         current info.

2015-04-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Fix  a figure caption. Thanks to Antonio
Colombo         for pointing this  out.           *  gawktexi.in:
Additional typo fix, also thanks to Antonio.

2015-04-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Name change: div() -->
intdiv().

2015-03-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in:  Update  discussion  of  calling  built-in
functions          indirectly.  Small  additional fix relating to
rand(). Thanks         to Antonio Colombo.

2015-03-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Minor edits.

2015-03-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Minor fixes from Antonio Colombo  and  new
exercise          in  chapter 16.          * gawk.1: Minor edits.
        * gawktexi.in: Edits in material on errno  and  retryable
and get_file         API.

2015-03-17          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Modify inplace.awk to call inplace_end  in
BEGINFILE          and  END  instead of in ENDFILE. This way, ac-
tions in ENDFILE rules         will be redirected as expected.

2015-03-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Turn "positive" into non-negative  as  ap-
propriate.            Thanks  to  Nicholas  Mills  <nlmills@clem-
son.edu> for pointing out         the issue.

2015-03-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Briefly describe that nonfatal  I/O  over-
rides          GAWK_SOCK_RETRIES,  in the env var part and in the
nonfatal I/O         part.

2015-03-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Change quotes to  @dfn  for  pseudorandom.
        A last-minute O'Reilly fix.

2015-02-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Update  UPDATE-MONTH and copyright year.
        Note that "the  guide  is  definitive"  quote  is  really
        from  "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe". Thanks
        to Antonio Colombo for pointing this out.

2015-02-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Update to most current version.          *
gawktexi.in:  Minor  edit  to match an O'Reilly fix.          Add
some FIXMEs to one day use @sup.

2015-02-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Change 'div' to 'divisor'  in  some  exam-
ples.           This future-proofs against a new function in mas-
ter.          Thanks to Antonio Giovanni Colombo for the report.

2015-02-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: More O'Reilly fixes. I think it's done!

2015-02-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: More O'Reilly fixes.

2015-02-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: A few minor formatting fixes to sync  with
O'Reilly         version.

2015-02-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: O'Reilly fixes. Through QC1 review.

2015-02-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: O'Reilly fixes.

2015-02-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Minor fixes, O'Reilly fixes.

2015-02-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Restore a lost sentence. O'Reilly fixes.

2015-02-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  O'Reilly  fixes.          Make non-fatal
i/o use "NONFATAL".

2015-02-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: O'Reilly fixes.

2015-02-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: O'Reilly  fixes.           *  gawktexi.in:
Update various version-related bits of info.

2015-02-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: O'Reilly fixes.

2015-02-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: POSIX requirement that function parameters
cannot         have the same name as a function is  now  --posix.
        Restore indirectcall example.

        More O'Reilly fixes.

2015-01-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Document POSIX requirement that function
parameters         cannot have the same name as a  function.  Fix
indirectcall example.

2015-01-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  O'Reilly fixes.          And still more.
Also, fix @code --> @command in a number of places.

2015-01-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: O'Reilly fixes.

2015-01-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Fix  a  bad  URL.   And   another   one.
        More O'Reilly fixes.

2015-01-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: O'Reilly fixes.          (Glossary): Many
new entries from Antonio Giovanni Colombo.

2015-01-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: O'Reilly fixes.           Remove  obsolete
start/end of range indexing comments.

2015-01-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: O'Reilly fixes.

2015-01-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawkinet.texi:  Fix  capitalization in document title.
        * gawktexi.in: Here we go again: Starting on more O'Reil-
ly fixes.

2014-12-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Add info that nonfatal I/O works with std-
out and         stderr.  Revise version info and what  was  added
when.

2015-01-05          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Improve get_file documentation.

2015-01-05         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Replace "Retrying I/O" with "Retrying In-
put", since this         feature pertains to input, not output.

2015-01-04         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Document the get_file API function.

2015-01-04          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawk.1: Document  new  features  PROCINFO["errno"]  and
        PROCINFO["input",  "RETRY"], and new getline return value
of -2.          * gawktexi.in: Ditto.

2014-12-26         Antonio Giovanni Colombo   <azc100@gmail.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Glossary): Really sort the items.

2014-12-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Start documenting nonfatal output.

2014-12-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Add one more paragraph  to  new  foreword.
        *  gawktexi.in: Fix exponentiation in TeX mode. Thanks to
        Marco Curreli by way of Antonio Giovanni Colombo.

        * texinfo.tex: Updated.

2014-12-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Minor fix.          Thanks to  Teri  Price
<tjp212@lehigh.edu>.

2014-12-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: More minor fixes.

2014-12-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: More minor fixes.

2014-12-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Minor fixes.

2014-12-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: A minor fix.

2014-12-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Various minor fixes and updates.

2014-11-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Update that TZ env. var can influence mk-
time         in running program.  Thanks to Hermann Peifer.

2014-11-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Update that RFC 4180 documents CSV data.

2014-11-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Copyedits applied.

2014-11-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Comment out  that  I  need  an  owner  for
awk.info.          I may have found one or two people.

2014-10-29          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Document new extras  directory  containing
shell  startup         files to manipulate AWKPATH and AWKLIBPATH
environment variables.

2014-10-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.1:  Clarification  that  debugger  reads   stdin.
        *  gawktexi.in:  Ditto,  and correctly place the "Braces"
entry in         the Glossary.  Thanks  to  Antonio  Colombo  for
that.

        Unrelated:

        *  gawktexi.in:  Restore use of @sc. Karl fixed makeinfo.
:-)

2014-10-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Minor typo fixes.          Fix  discussion
of er note from Antonio Colombo.

2014-10-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Fix  date in docbook attribution for new
Foreword;         thanks to Antonio Colombo for the  catch.   Up-
date latest version         of gettext.

2014-10-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.1:  Fix  default value for AWKLIBPATH.          *
gawktexi.in: Revised text for AWKPATH and AWKLIBPATH.

2014-10-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Add new Foreword from Mike Brennan.

2014-10-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Fix  example  outputs  in   chapter   2.
        Improve description of SYMTAB.

2014-10-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Revise doc for {INT,STR}_CHAIN_MAX. Remove
Pat         Rankin from VMS duties (per his request). Add a small
TeX fix         for the table in ch 16 for requesting values.

2014-10-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Finished changes!

2014-10-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (EMRED):  Renamed from EMISTERED to match
original.          Thanks to Warren Toomey at TUHS for access  to
archives recording         the text.

2014-10-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Pretty much done!

        Unrelated:

        * gawktexi.in: Fix braino in awk version of div function.
        Thanks to Katie Wasserman for the catch.

2014-10-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: More fixes after reading through the MS.

        Unrelated:

        * gawktexi.in: Add Katie Wasserman's program  to  compute
        the digits of PI.

        Unrelated:

        * gawktexi.in: Document the differences between profiling
        and pretty printing.

2014-09-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: More fixes after reading through the MS.

2014-09-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: More fixes after reading through  the  MS.
        And still more fixes.

2014-09-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  More fixes after reading through the MS.
        Document the debugger's "where" command.

2014-09-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Lots more fixes after reading through  the
MS.

2014-09-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Rework the documentation of special files
in         Chapter 5; some reordering as well as rewriting.

2014-09-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktex.in: Continue fixes after  reading  through  the
MS.

2014-09-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktex.in:  Start  on fixes after reading through the
MS.

2014-09-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Fix italics in quotations.   Some  docbook
special         cases.

2014-09-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Document  that  identifiers must use the
English         letters.

2014-09-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: More edits during review, minor addition.

2014-09-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Remove text that won't get used.

2014-09-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Minor cleanups.

2014-09-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Document builtin functions in FUNCTAB  and
in         PROCINFO["identifiers"].          * gawk.1: Ditto.

        Unrelated:

        * gawktexi.in: More stuff from reviewer comments.

2014-09-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Document that indirect calls now work on
built-in          and  extension  functions.           *  gawk.1:
Same.

2014-09-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Further  fixes  from reviews and bug re-
ports.

2014-09-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Corrections  to  walkthrough  in  debugger
chapter.           Thanks to David Ward <dlward134@gmail.com> for
the problem report.

2014-09-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Add index entry for @ -  @load,  @include,
        and  indirect function calls. Thanks to "Kenny McKormack"
in         comp.lang.awk.

2014-08-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Continuing on reviewer comments, and other
        bug fixes, miscellaneous improvements.

2014-08-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Use  a  different  mechanism  to exclude
        exercises. Remove use of LC_ALL in  an  example;  doesn't
seem         to be needed anymore.

        Unrelated:

        * gawktexi.in: Document that MirBSD is no longer support-
ed.

2014-08-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Exercises are excluded from print edition.

2014-08-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Continuing on reviewer comments.

2014-08-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Continuing on reviewer comments.

2014-08-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Continuing on reviewer comments.

2014-08-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Continuing on reviewer comments.

2014-08-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Continuing on reviewer comments.

2014-08-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Continuing on reviewer comments.

2014-08-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *   gawktexi.in:   Starting   on    reviewer    comments.
        Update acknowledgements.

2014-08-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Cause  div.awk  to  get into the example
files.

2014-08-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Misc minor additions.

2014-08-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: For sprintf %c document that if value is a
valid          wide  character,  gawk  uses the low 8 bits of the
value.

        Unrelated:

        * gawktexi.in: Fix doc for API get_record - errcode needs
to         be greater than zero.

2014-07-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Numeric Functions): For `div()', clarify
        truncation is towards zero.  Thanks to Michal  Jaegermann
        for pointing out the need to clarify this.

2014-07-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Numeric Functions): Document new `div()'
function.          (Arbitrary Precision Integers): Document  rai-
son  d'etre  for  div().           * gawk.1, awkcard.in: Document
`div()'.

2014-07-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Bracket Expressions): Add a note about how
to         match ASCII characters.  Thanks to Hermann Peifer.

2014-06-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Update permissions on copyright page per
        latest maintain.texi. Add GPL to print version of book.

2014-06-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Document  that  --pretty-print  no  longer
runs  the          program.  Remove mention of GAWK_NO_PP_RUN env
var.

2014-06-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Typo fixes and minor corrections.

2014-06-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Add thanks to Patrice Dumas  and  to  Karl
Berry.           Per  request from Hermann Peifer, try to clarify
how local variables         in functions are initialized.

2014-06-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Split 6.1.4 into subsections. Other  minor
fixes.

2014-06-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Finish adding exercises.          Rework
chapter 15 on floating point and MPFR.          Spell check.  Fix
menues.

2014-06-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Start adding exercises.

2014-06-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Finish up summaries. Improvements in mys-
trtonum().

2014-06-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Fix typos from  changes  of  3  June  when
macros were         added for filename, data file, etc. Ooops.

2014-06-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  More "Summary" sections. Through chapter
14.

2014-06-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: More "Summary" sections.  Through  chapter
10.

2014-06-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Update docbook figure markup.

2014-06-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  More  "Summary" sections.          Judi-
ciously arrange for full xrefs in docbook in a few spots.

2014-06-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Start adding "Summary" sections.

2014-06-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Restore macros for file name vs.  filename
etc.           Go  through  @if...  and @ifnot... and fix them up
too. Other misc.          cleanup.

2014-05-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Remove some obsolete  bits,  fix  up  some
other         minor stuff.

2014-05-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Edits through the end!

2014-05-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Edits through Appendix A.          * gawk-
texi.in: Tweak nested lists for docbook.

2014-05-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Staying current): New section.

2014-05-22         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawktexi.in (BEGINFILE/ENDFILE): Update doc for getline
- any         redirected form is  allowed  inside  BEGINFILE/END-
FILE.

2014-05-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Add comments for where we need full xrefs
in         docbook.

2014-05-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Misc improvements for docbook, consistency
        in table and figure captions.

2014-05-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Edits through Chapter 16.

2014-05-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Edits through Chapter 14.

2014-05-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Fix  displays for docbook, edits through
Chapter 11.

2014-05-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Fix real preface for docbook.

2014-05-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Complete formatting for FOR_PRINT and  not
FOR_PRINT.

2014-05-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Docbook  edits  for  preface  and parts.
        Document AWKBUFSIZE.

2014-05-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Editing progress. Through Chapter 9.

2014-05-05         Michal Jaegermann     <michal@harddata.com>

        *  array-elements.fig:  Fix  subscripts  to  be   aligned
        horizontally.  Regenerate the other files.

2014-05-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Editing  progress.  Through  Chapter  8.
        *  array-elements.eps,   array-elements.fig,   array-ele-
ments.pdf,           array-elements.png  array-elements.txt:  New
files.          * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add them.

2014-04-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Editing  progress.  Through  Chapter  5.
        *  gawktexi.in:  Editing  progress. Through Chapter 6 and
into         Chapter 7.

2014-04-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Editing progress. Through Chapter 3.

2014-04-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Start on revisions.

2014-04-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.1: Remove the bit about single character  programs
overflowing          the  parse stack. It doesn't seem to be true
anymore.

2014-04-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * 4.1.1: Release tar ball made.

2014-04-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Update to latest.           *  awkcard.in:
Update copyright, patchlevel in download.          * gawktexi.in:
Update patchlevel, update month, spell check.

2014-03-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Cleanups to docbook, finish math stuff.

2014-03-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Minor cleanups to the indexing.

        Unrelated:

        * gawktexi.in: Merge in changes needed for creating valid
        DocBook XML. Works with post-5.2 Texinfo and dblatex!

2014-03-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Finish the massive indexing improvements
such that         functions are indexed the way I want in TeX and
the way Eli         wants in Info.

        Unrelated:

        *  gawktexi.in:  Add  a  note  in  extension chapter that
lookup of         PROCINFO can fail.

2014-03-27         Eli Zaretskii             <eliz@gnu.org>

        * gawktexi.in: First round of massive  indexing  improve-
ments.

2014-03-27         Antonio Giovanni Colombo   <azc100@gmail.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Redo all the examples using BBS-list to a
different         file that doesn't use out-of-date concepts.

2014-03-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Finish indexing  improvements.  (For  now,
anyway.)

        Unrelated:

        * gawk.1: Document the quote flag! (Better late than nev-
er.)          * awkcard.in: Update documentation of quote flag.

2014-03-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Minor edits to the discussion of the memo-
ry allocation         functions.

2014-03-08          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Document  new  extension  API  functions
api_malloc,         api_calloc, api_realloc, and api_free.

2014-03-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Indexing improvements.

2014-03-02         John E. Malmberg      <wb8tyw@qsl.net>

        *   gawktexi.in:  Remove  paragraph  about  obsolete  VMS
          compilers.  Update reference about building PCSI kit.

2014-02-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Lots of small fixes throughout, update  of
        profiling  output.   Finished  fixes  needed before a re-
lease.

2014-02-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Add a quote to the alarm clock program.

2014-02-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Update to latest.

2014-02-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Lots of small edits.

2014-02-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: More minor fixes, update UPDATE_MONTH.

2014-02-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: More minor fixes, in indexing.

2014-02-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in, gawkinet.texi: Minor fixes, mostly in  in-
dexing.          * texinfo.tex: Update to latest.

2014-01-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Add `()' to names of extension functions
in indexing         commands and in one place in the  text.  Con-
sistency, don'tcha know.

2014-01-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Add a few missing STARTOFRANGE comments.
        * gawk.1: Note that `(i, j) in array' doesn't work in for
loops.          Update the copyright year.

2014-01-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Update info for Anders Wallin.

2014-01-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  texinfo.tex:  Updated  to  current version.          *
gawktexi.in: Add  magic  stuff  so  that  PDFs  have  "dark  red"
        links like before.

2014-01-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Feature History): New node.          (Com-
mon Extensions): Update features now in mawk, too.

2014-12-14         John E. Malmberg      <wb8tyw@qsl.net>

        * gawktexi.in: Add information on building VMS PCSI kit.

2014-01-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Full Line Fields): New node.           Up-
date copyright year.

2013-12-29         John E. Malmberg      <wb8tyw@qsl.net>

        * gawktexi.in: VMS dynamic extensions.

2013-12-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *    gawktexi.in:   More   minor   additions   /   fixes.
        (Bugs): Add John Malmberg for VMS. Other minor edits.

2013-12-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Minor additions / fixes.

2013-12-23         John E. Malmberg      <wb8tyw@qsl.net>

        * gawktexi.in: Document the VMS exit status encoding.

2013-12-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Additional Configuration  Options):  Docu-
ment         the --disable-extensions option.

2013-12-16         John E. Malmberg      <wb8tyw@qsl.net>

        * gawktexi.in: Updates to VMS sections.

2013-12-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Fix the presentation of asort() and asor-
ti().          Thanks to Andy Schorr for pointing out  the  prob-
lems.

2013-11-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Update  quotations to use @author, fix a
few         placements of footnotes.

2013-11-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Update the list of files included  in  the
gawk         distribution and fix a few typos.

2013-11-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Fix the section and subsection headings in
        the Preface.  Also change the short title  page  to  just
        "GNU Awk".

2013-10-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in: Add @shorttitlepage command.

2013-10-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Contributors):  Update  with  more info.
        (Distribution contents): Ditto.          General:  Remove
all hyphens when used with "multi" prefix.

2013-10-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Other  Environment  Variables): Document
GAWK_MSG_SRC           variable   and   fix   documentation    of
*_CHAIN_MAX variables.

2013-10-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Conversion, Printf Ordering): Better word-
ing  for          descriptions  of  CONVFMT.  Thanks  to  Hermann
Peifer.

2013-09-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Other Versions): Updated info on MKS awk
and         some other links.

2013-09-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Readfile function): New node.

2013-09-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (FN, FFN, DF,DDF,  PVERSION,  CTL):  Remove
macros.           They have no alternate versions and are just in
the way.

2013-08-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.1: Document that ENVIRON updates affect the  envi-
ronment.          * gawktexi.in: Ditto.

2013-06-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Update from Karl, fixes a formatting prob-
lem.          * gawktexi.in (Conversions): Undo @w{} around  @op-
tion{--posix}.

2013-06-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Type Functions): Add more explanation to
isarray(),         including that it makes no sense to call it at
the global level.

2013-06-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in:  Make  it crystal clear not to use delete
with FUNCTAB,         or attempt to assign to it.

2013-05-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (Internal File Description): Add "devbsize"
element         to stat data array.

2013-05-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Sample filefuncs.c extension code: Change
test      from               ifdef       HAVE_ST_BLKSIZE       to
HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_BLKSIZE.

2013-05-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in  (Quick Installation): Add a paragraph ad-
vising to         run `make install'. Thanks to Hermann Peifer.

2013-05-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in (gawkextlib): Add a note to  use  make  in-
stall  on          gawkextlib  itself.  Thanks to Hermann Peifer.
        (Cut program): Fix test for skipping lines if -s was sup-
plied.           Thanks  to David Ward <bamberward@gmail.com> for
the bug report.

2013-05-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * 4.1.0: Release tar ball made.

2013-05-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawktexi.in, gawk.1: Document that a regexp constant as
the  second          argument  to index() produces a fatal error.
        * gawktexi.in: More cleanups. Particularly,  cleanup  the
index.

2013-04-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawktexi.in: Renamed from gawkman.texi.          Add a
reference  to  Overton's  IEEE  Math  book   in   MPFR   chapter.
        Thanks to Nelson Beebe for the recommendation.          *
Makefile.am, sidebar.awk: Adjusted.

2013-04-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawkman.texi:  Cleanup  in  MPFR  and  API   chapters.
        Also minor cleanup in design decisions. Add vim modeline.
        * api-figure2.fig: Minor fix.          * api-figure2.eps,
api-figure2.pdf, api-figure2.png: Regenerated.

2013-04-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.1:  Finish  cleanup  pass.          * awkcard.in:
Document that getline sets RT.          * gawkman.texi: Ditto.

2013-04-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.1: Start cleanup pass.          * awkcard.in:  Mi-
nor addition.          * gawkman.texi: Minor fixes.

        * gawk.1, gawkman.texi: Document PROCINFO entries for API
        major and minor versions.

2013-04-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawkman.texi: Update all the menus.  Fix  spelling  er-
rors. Remove         some unneeded fakenodes.

2013-04-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * awkcard.in: Clean up and bring up to date.

2013-04-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  Makefile.am  (gawk.ps,  gawkinet.ps): Set TEXINPUTS to
point         at $(srcdir) to be able to include various  figures
if doing a         build not in the source directory.

2013-04-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawkman.texi: New file. This is now the real source for
the         manual and gawk.texi is generated from it.          *
sidebar.awk:  New  file  to  DTRT  for  sidebars  in  the manual.
        * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Update.          (gawk.texi):
Add new rule to create / update it if necessary.

2013-04-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi: Pretty much finish cleanup. Move i18n chap-
ter to         after advanced features chapter.          * texin-
fo.tex: Updated to current in texinfo SVN.

2013-04-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Continue cleanup.

2013-04-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi:  Add  link  to  'pawk'  -  awk  for python.
        Further cleanups.

2013-04-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Continue cleanup.

2013-04-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Continue cleanup.

2013-04-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Continue cleanup.

2013-04-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Continue cleanup.

2013-04-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Start a simple cleanup pass before  the  re-
lease.

2013-03-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Update URL for texinfo, fix a typo.

2013-03-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi (Getline/Pipe): Add a nice quote from BWK.

2013-02-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Restore centering of text images.

2013-02-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi  (Other Versions): Remove the description of
xmlgawk.

2013-02-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: For Info output, don't use @center  on  text
images         since the new makeinfo doesn't yet center the file
as a block.          Thanks to Karl  Berry  for  the  diagnostic.
        *  gawk.1:  Remove  commented out doc for -m option which
was for         compatibility with BWK awk. His  awk  dropped  it
back in 2007.

2013-01-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  api-figure2.txt, api-figure3.txt: Convert tabs to spa-
ces.          * gawk.texi (Gory Details): Fix a command that  new
makeinfo doesn't         recognize.          (Conversion): Update
example to be in POSIX mode. Thanks to         Hermann Peifer.

2013-01-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi (Dynamic Typing): Clarify that gawk dies  af-
ter  the         first fatal error on the test program. Thanks to
Hermann Peifer.

2013-01-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi (Setting Precision): Fix a  typo.  3.322  in-
stead         of 3.332.  Thanks to Hermann Peifer.

2013-01-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Minor edits to documentation for new inplace
extension.

2013-01-08         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawk.texi: Add documentation for new inplace extension.

2013-01-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi,  awkcard.in: Sync what mawk has. Main point
of         interest is that mawk supports the  three  time  func-
tions.

2013-01-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi,  awkcard.in:  Add Git Hub info for BWK awk.
        Update copyrights.           *  gawk.texi:  Add  Software
Tools quote in chapter on library functions.

2012-12-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Remove doc sym_constant() API function.

2012-12-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * 4.0.2: Release tar ball made.

2012-12-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Remove an incorrect comment.          * awk-
card.in: Bump patch level.

2012-12-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi (Input Parsers): Add info on read_func.

2012-12-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Move design decisions on new API to appendix
C.           Move  section  on old extensions to last in the same
appendix.

2012-12-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * macros: Update to GPL Version 3 and add copyright year.
        *  texinfo.tex: Updated, from automake 1.12.6.          *
gawk.texi (Derived Files): A few minor fixes.

2012-12-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * awkforai.txt: Changed content to be pointers to the ar-
ticle          to  avoid  copyright issues.          * gawk.texi:
Updated description of awkforai.txt.

2012-12-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi (I/O Functions): Document  that  fflush()  is
now  part          of  POSIX.  Fix in a few other places as well.
        * awkcard.in: Update for fflush().

2012-12-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Fix all @tex ... @end tex tables  to  use  a
different          control character than @ so that the new make-
info won't         complain about them. Thanks to Karl Berry  for
the guidance.          (Old Extension Mechanism): New node.

2012-12-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: API chapter. Sync with gawkapi.h

2012-11-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi:  API  chapter.  Change  command  for making
shared libs         to use gcc, not ld. Thanks to  Nelson  Beebe.
        (I/O  Functions):  Document  new  behavior  for fflush().
        * gawk.1: Update  for  fflush().           *  awkcard.in:
Ditto. And some general cleanup.

2012-11-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi  (Future  Extensions): Point to TODO file in
the         gawk dist.          (Implementation Limitations): New
node, from old LIMITATIONS file.

2012-11-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi:  In  API chapter, document the full list of
include         files that need to be included.

2012-11-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: In API  chapter,  update  behavior  of  stat
function         in the filefuncs extension.  Update the code ex-
ample and prose         to match the current code.

2012-11-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: In API chapter, update behavior  of  readdir
extension.

2012-11-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi: Minor edits in API chapter.          Thanks
to Nelson Beebe.

2012-11-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Minor edits in API chapter.           Thanks
to Andrew Schorr.

2012-11-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi:  Rearrange  chapter order and separate into
parts         using @part for TeX.  Fix capitalization  in  @cap-
tion text.          (Variable Scope): Document that arrays can be
local   also.            Thanks   to   Denis   Shirokov   <cosmo-
gen@gmail.com>, for pointing out         the lack.

2012-11-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Semi-rationalize invocations of @image.

2012-11-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi:  New  chapter  on extension API.          *
api-figure1.pdf, api-figure2.pdf, api-figure3.pdf,         gener-
al-program.pdf,  process-flow.pdf:  New  files. Again.          *
Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Update. Again.

2012-11-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * api-figure1.pdf, api-figure2.pdf, api-figure3.pdf:  Re-
moved.            *  api-figure1.txt,  api-figure2.txt,  api-fig-
ure3.txt,          api-figure1.png,   api-figure2.png,   api-fig-
ure3.png: New files.          * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Update.

        *  gawk.texi:  Fix  up  images.           *  general-pro-
gram.pdf,  process-flow.pdf:  Removed.           *   general-pro-
gram.png, process-flow.png,         general-program.txt, process-
flow.txt: New files.          * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Update.

2012-10-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  api-figure1.eps,   api-figure1.fig,   api-figure1.pdf,
        api-figure2.eps,     api-figure2.fig,    api-figure2.pdf,
        api-figure3.eps,  api-figure3.fig,  api-figure3.pdf:  New
files.          * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add the above.

2012-10-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi (Glossary): Document cookie, some cleanup of
        notes at the end.

2012-10-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: More doc on SYMTAB.

2012-10-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * Makefile.am  (LN,  install-data-hook,  uninstall-hook):
Removed. No         longer needed since dgawk and pgawk are gone.

2012-10-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  Makefile.am:  Add  dgawk.1 to man page links created /
removed         on install / uninstall. (On stable branch.)

2012-10-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi (Glossary). Correct the full name  for  `ISO'
per          bug  report from William Bresler <wbresler@acm.org>.
Add a link         to the ISO website.

        *  gawk.texi,  gawk.1,  awkcard.in:   Document   FUNCTAB,
SYMTAB,   and           PROCINFO["identifiers"].  Including  that
delete does not work         on FUNCTAB and SYMTAB.

2012-09-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi (Nextfile Statement): Document that it's  now
part  of  POSIX          and update the title.          (Delete):
Document that `delete array' is now  part  of  POSIX.           *
awkcard.in: Adjust coloring for nextfile and delete array.

2012-09-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Updated to version 2012-09-05.06.

2012-08-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Minor edits, fix some spelling mistakes.

2012-08-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *   gawk.texi:  More  edits  to  chapter  on  arithmetic.
        Primarily English changes.

2012-08-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Emphasize more that floating point  behavior
is          not  a  language  issue.  Add  a pointer to POSIX bc.
        Move arithmetic chapter to  later  in  the  book,  before
chapter         on dynamic extensions.

2012-08-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Update infrastructure to Automake 1.12.3.

2012-08-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi: Fixed a math bug in the chapter on multiple
        precision floating point. Thanks to John Haque.

2012-08-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Merged discussion of numbers from Appendix C
into          the  chapter on arbitrary precision arithmetic. Did
some surgery         on that chapter to organize it a little bet-
ter.

2012-08-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  awkcard.in, gawk.1, gawk.texi: Updated. Mostly for new
API  stuff          but  also  some  other   things.            *
gawk.texi (Derived Files): New node.

2012-08-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * Makefile.am (install-data-hook): Install a dgawk.1 link
to the         man page also. Remove it on uninstall.

2012-07-29         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawk.texi: Document that RT is set by getline.

2012-07-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi,  gawk.1,  awkcard.in:  Document that and(),
or(), and         xor() can all take  any  number  of  arguments,
with a minimum of two.

2012-06-10          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawk.texi: Rename gettimeofday  function  to  getlocal-
time,  since         the new time extension will provide gettime-
ofday.

2012-05-24         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        *  gawk.texi,  gawk.1:  Replace references to dlload with
dl_load.          But much more work needs  to  be  done  on  the
docs.

2012-05-19          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawk.texi, gawk.1: Document new -i option, and describe
new default         .awk suffix behavior.

2012-04-01          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawk.texi: Replace documentation of  removed  functions
update_ERRNO and         update_ERRNO_saved with descriptions new
functions update_ERRNO_int,         update_ERRNO_string  and  un-
set_ERRNO.   And  fix  a  couple  of  examples         to use up-
date_ERRNO_int instead of update_ERRNO.

2012-03-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Minor style edits.

2012-03-21         Andrew  J.  Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawk.texi, gawk.1: Document new @load keyword.

2012-03-20          Andrew  J.  Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-in-
vestments.com>

        * gawk.texi, gawk.1: Add AWKLIBPATH.

2012-08-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi (Ranges and Locales):  Clarified  ranges  and
        locales. Again.

2012-08-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi (PC Binary Installation): Document Eli Zaret-
skii's         site.          (Records): Update case of RS = "a".
It only prints 1 if in         POSIX mode. Thanks to Jeroen Schot
who first reported it.

2012-07-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi (Ranges and Locales):  Clarified  ranges  and
        locales.

2012-07-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi  (Getline  Notes):  Discuss  side effects in
        argument expression.

2012-06-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi,   awkcard.in:   Latest   mawk   understands
/dev/stdin.

2012-04-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Add that -b affects output.

2012-04-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Update to latest from automake 1.12.

2012-04-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * texinfo.tex: Update to latest from automake 1.11.4.

2012-04-11         John Haque     <j.eh@mchsi.com>

        *  gawk.texi:  Change  RNDMODE  to  ROUNDMODE.          *
gawk.1, awkcard.in: Ditto.

2012-04-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Change  --arbitrary-precision  to  --bignum.
        *  gawk.1:  Ditto.           *  awkcard.in: Add --bignum,
RNDMODE, PREC.

2012-04-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Editing on new chapter on  arbitrary  preci-
sion numbers.

2012-03-31         John Haque     <j.eh@mchsi.com>

        *  gawk.texi,  gawk.1:  Add text on support for arbitrary
precision         numbers.

2012-02-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi, gawk.1: And some minor edits thereunto.

2012-02-03         John Haque     <j.eh@mchsi.com>

        * gawk.texi, gawk.1: Add text on read timeout.

2011-12-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * awkcard.in, gawk.1: Minor edits after merge of executa-
bles.

2011-12-21         John Haque     <j.eh@mchsi.com>

        *  gawk.texi: Updated sections on profiling and debugging
        after merging the exes. Document new options --debug  and
        --load,  and  add  a sub-section on loading extension li-
brary.          * gawk.1: Same.          * awkcard.in: Same.

2012-03-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * 4.0.1: Release tar ball made.

2012-02-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi, awkcard.in:  Bump  patch  level.           *
texinfo.tex: Updated from Texinfo CVS.

2011-12-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi: Various typo fixes from mailing list.

2011-11-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.1: Fix some .BR to be .B.

2011-11-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi:  Further  improvement  in the discussion of
sorted array         traversal. Some sections reordered and  text
edited to suit.

2011-11-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi:  Try  to improve discussion of sorted array
        traversal.

2011-09-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.1:  Fix   some   spelling   errors.   Thanks   to
        Jeroen    Schot    <schot@A-Eskwadraat.nl>.             *
gawk.texi: Some minor fixes.

2011-08-31         John Haque     <j.eh@mchsi.com>

        * gawk.texi: Updated gawk dynamic extension doc.

2011-07-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        * gawk.texi (Gory Details): Restore  text  on  historical
behavior         etc. and add explanation on gawk 4.0.x.

2011-07-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  gawk.texi:  Add  reference in node Expressions to node
Precedence,         based on suggestion from Dan Jacobson dated 4
Jun 2001.

2011-07-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

        *  gawk.texi:  Warn up-front (indirectly) that plain gawk
is not         compatible with SVR4 awk and with POSIX awk.   De-
scribe  how         gawk differs from the GNU standard in its in-
terpretation of         POSIXLY_CORRECT.  (From mail dated 15 May
2001).

2011-06-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  Makefile.am  (EXTRA_DIST): Add ChangeLog.0.          *
4.0.0: Remake the tar ball.

2011-06-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

        *  ChangeLog.0:  Rotated  ChangeLog   into   this   file.
        *   ChangeLog:  Created  anew  for  gawk  4.0.0  and  on.
        * 4.0.0: Release tar ball made.