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2020-12-01 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawkinet.texi: Lots of cleanup edits. Bump the minor part
of the edition.
2020-11-28 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawkworkflow.texi: Add an additional web resource.
* gawktexi.in: More edits in sample programs chapter.
2020-11-16 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Nextfile Statement): Clarify what happens in
a BEGINFILE rule.
* gawktexi.in: Additional small fixes.
2020-10-31 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.
2020-10-28 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Other Arguments): Add a sidebar about quoting shell
variables on the command line. Based on a bug list discussion in 2018.
2020-10-22 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.
2020-10-16 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: After review, remove/update some FIXMEs, and
and fix a markup error.
2020-10-15 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Add an index entry.
2020-10-12 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Explain `ls -l' earlier in the book, and small wording
improvement in explanation of options. Thanks to Yehezkel Bernat.
<yehezkelshb@gmail.com> for the comments.
2020-10-11 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawkworkflow.texi: Fix a spelling error.
* wordlist, wordlist2: Updated.
2020-10-07 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Add an additional dark corner notation.
2020-10-05 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Minor edit related to compatiblity mode and
unknown options. Thanks to Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@drabczyk.org>
for raising the issue.
Unrelated:
* gawktexi.in: A number of small fixes, mostly thanks to
Antonio Columbo.
2020-10-04 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Minor edits.
Unrelated:
* gawktexi.in (Wc Program): Update to POSIX, support both bytes
and characters via the gawkextlib mbs extension.
Unrelated:
* gawktexi.in: Remove TODO at end of file related to recursion;
it's already handled.
2020-10-01 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Split Program): Rewrite split to be POSIX
compliant. Update all the prose.
* wordlist: Update.
2020-09-24 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Fix a spelling error.
* wordlist, wordlist2, wordlist3: Remove words that spell
now recognizes as real words.
* gawkinet.texi: Fix a spelling error.
* Makefile.am (spellinet): New target.
* wordlist4: New file.
2020-09-18 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Minor fixes. Thanks to Antonio Columbo for
bringing them to my attention.
2020-09-13 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Egrep Program): Improve to be POSIX compliant.
Update explanatory text as well.
2020-09-11 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Id Program): Rewrite to be POSIX compliant.
Update explanatory text as well.
2020-09-04 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Index BWK quotes separately. Finish using "BWK awk"
everywhere. Fix up text with exercise for uniq.awk in both
places.
2020-09-01 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawk.1: Minor edits.
* awkcard.in: Ditto.
2020-08-31 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Uniq Program): Updated uniq.awk to follow 2020 POSIX.
2020-08-26 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Fix some small mistakes / typos.
Adjust the prose some as well.
2020-08-25 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (BEGINFILE/ENDFILE): Document that as of 5.1.1, in
a BEGINFILE, the record and fields are cleared. Fixes an issue
reported by Pat Rankin in May, 2011. Remove the related FIXME,
as well as a FIXME later on that is no longer relevant. Clarify
the prose in the whole section.
2020-08-24 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Arithmetic Ops): Update text to fix a FIXME. Document
that modulus is POSIX compliant.
2020-08-18 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (String Functions): Fix a typo in the description
of patsplit. Thanks to Nelson H.F. Beebe for the report.
2020-08-12 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Profiling): Add explanation of function order.
2020-07-28 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Change a FIXME into a real cross reference. Thanks
to Antonio Columbo for the report.
2020-07-26 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Document that get_mpfr and get_mpz are obsolete
and revise doc on handling MPFR and GMP values from an
extension function.
2020-07-15 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Document how to handle MPFR and GMP values
from an extension function.
Unrelated:
* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.
2020-07-13 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (General Data Types): Document that MPFR
data types are copied and have to be freed in the
extension.
2020-07-02 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawk.1, gawktexi.in: Document -I/--trace option.
* awkcard.in: Document -I/--trace option.
2020-06-25 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawk.1: Applied some more troff "lint" fixes.
Thanks to Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>.
2020-06-15 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawkinet.texi: Small fixes, and revise the indexing to use
new Texinfo features.
2020-06-14 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawkworkflow.texi: Revise indexing to use new Texinfo features.
2020-06-12 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (String Functions): Update doc on asort and asorti
w.r.t. SYMTAB and FUNCTAB.
2020-06-10 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>
* bc_notes: Add new field `unsigned long long ldl' to INSTRUCTION,
and update the definition of exec_count.
2020-06-09 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Implementation Limits): Update the table to be more
accurate and up to date. Note units of limits, per request from
Ed Morton <mortoneccc@comcast.net>.
2020-06-07 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.
2020-06-05 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Improvements in switch statement and typed
regex sections.
2020-05-24 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawk.1: Applied a number of troff "lint" fixes.
Thanks to Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>.
2020-05-15 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawkworkflow.texi: Minor updates.
* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.
2020-05-08 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawkinet.texi: Remove special casing for statist image for
Info. Makeinfo handles it just fine.
2020-04-26 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawkinet.texi: Include ASCII Art version of the statist
image. Thanks again to Manuel Collado. Also update copyright
year and update month.
Also thanks to Manuel, remove extra @insertcopying for Info.
* statist.txt: New file.
2020-04-20 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawkinet.texi: Include statist figure in HTML version. Thanks
to Manuel Collado for pointing this out.
2020-04-14 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* 5.1.0: Release tar ball made.
2020-04-13 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Small typo fixes. Thanks to Antonio Columbo
for pointing them out.
2020-04-12 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Contribution from Manuel Collado related
to CSV processing.
2020-04-10 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in, gawk.1: Fix some spelling errors.
* wordlist, wordlist2, wordlist3: Updated with more words.
2020-04-01 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Clarify about whitespace.
2020-03-30 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Minor edits before release.
2020-03-18 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Fix up references to POSIX standard. Thanks to
Antonio Columbo for the pointers.
2020-03-15 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* texinfo.tex: Updated, via GNULIB.
* gawktexi.in: Misc updates.
2020-03-09 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>
* gawktexi.in (@val_str_asc, @val_num_asc, @val_str_desc,
@val_num_desc): Update descriptions to reflect that the index
strings are now used as a tie-breaker and @val_type_* is used
for comparing non-scalars.
2020-03-04 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Revised info on default values for AWKPATH
and AWKLIBPATH. Thanks to Jannick for the push.
* gawktexi.in: Document MSYS2 support and update the
updated month.
2020-02-02 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Getopt Function): Add support for long options,
contributed by Greg Minshall <minshall@acm.org>.
2020-01-23 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Document arry sorting by value for FUNCTAB.
Document that SYMTAB and FUNCTAB cannot be used with
asort() or asorti().
2020-01-19 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Escape Sequences): Stronger wording for \/
and \". Suggested by Jakub Martisko <jamartis@redhat.com>.
2020-01-19 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawkinet.info: Rebuilt using makeinfo 6.7.
2020-01-01 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (History Sorting): Supply a shorter version of the
program. Thanks to Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl>.
2019-12-22 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* implementation-notes.txt: New file.
2019-12-15 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Use `@codequoteundirected on' and
`@codequotebacktick on' to get straight quotes in PDF. Thanks
to empirical@quantbo.com for the report and to Assaf Gordon
for the pointer to the fix.
2019-11-21 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Document that the time extension is now obsolete.
2019-11-03 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Document that readdir extension can cause a
fatal error, which should be handled with BEGINFILE.
* gawk.1: Ditto.
2019-10-16 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* awkcard.in: BWK awk now supports RS as regexp, so remove the
"not nawk" note.
* gawktexi.in: Updates for BWK awk and RS as regexp.
2019-10-06 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Fix typo related to @/.../. Thanks to
Mark Krauze <marcuscruse@ya.ru> for the report.
2019-10-04 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* texinfo.tex: Updated.
2019-09-24 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Take advantage of new indexing features in
Texinfo 6.7.
* sidebar.awk: Ditto.
* texinfo.tex: Updated from Texinfo 6.7 distribution.
2019-08-23 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* awkcard.in: Fixes and updates. Some cleanup.
2019-08-21 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* texinfo.tex: Updated.
2019-08-11 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Other Arguments): Document the old trick of
using ./count=1 to name a file that looks like a variable
assignment. Thanks to Ed Morton <mortoneccc@comcast.net>
for the suggestion.
2019-07-23 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawk.1: Fix typo, update edition. Thanks to Antonio
Columbo for the pointers.
* gawktexi.in: Update EDITION. Thanks to Antonio Columbo.
Fix two typos. Thanks to Mark Krauze.
2019-07-21 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* awkcard.in, gawk.1, gawkinet.texi, gawktexi.in: Copyrights
updated, spell checked.
* wordlist, wordlist3: Updated.
2019-06-26 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Extension Sample Inplace): Fix backwards
compatibility. Thanks to Andrew Schorr for most of the change.
2019-06-21 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Input Exercises): Remove exercise that is
no longer relevant. Thanks to Mark Krauze <daburashka@ya.ru>
for pointing this out.
2019-06-21 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.
2019-06-18 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* 5.0.1: Release tar ball made.
2019-06-18 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Plain Getline): Improve the program and show
sample input and output. Thanks to Mark Krauze <daburashka@ya.ru>
for some of the changes.
Unrelated: Set the update month.
* awkcard.in: Bump version in download info.
2019-06-11 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Regexp Operator Details): Add a paragraph
describing how unmatched left and right parentheses work.
Thanks to Neil Ormos <ormos-gnulists17@ormos.org>
for pointing out the need.
2019-06-05 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Type Functions): Clarify isarray() and
typeof() behavior. Thanks to Mark Krauze <daburashka@ya.ru>,
for pointing out the issues.
2019-06-05 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Invoking Summary): Added nice summarization of
argument processing contributed by Neil R. Ormos,
<ormos-gnulists17@ormos.org>.
2019-05-22 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawk.1, gawktexi.in: Document --lint=no-ext.
2019-05-06 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in: Fix some typos. Thanks to Mark Krauze
<daburashka@ya.ru>, for pointing them out.
(Options): Document new feature in --sandbox, that you can't
add files that weren't there to start with.
2019-05-05 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Additional Configuration Options): Document that
--disable-extensions also disables the extensions! Thanks to
Mark Krauze <daburashka@ya.ru>, for pointing it out.
2019-04-28 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Options): Fix a copy/paste error. Thanks to
Mark Krauze <daburashka@ya.ru>, for pointing it out.
2019-04-22 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Undocumented): Fix a typo. Thanks to Antonio Columbo
for pointing it out.
2019-04-21 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Limitations): Provide brief instructions
on how to use use a temporary file in a script with
the debugger. Thanks to Holger Klene <h.klene@gmx.de>
for the discussion.
(Multiple Lines): Note that POSIX seems to require \n as
separator for all values of FS, but that in reality it
doesn't apply to regexps; this is a POSIX bug.
(Options): Document clearly that if no -f or -e, anything
after the program text is placed into ARGV and not
parsed for options. Thanks to Neil Ormos <ormos-gnulists17@ormos.org>
for the tip.
(Other Versions): Add a link to Mircea Neacsu's embeddable
awk interpreter.
2019-04-18 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Undocumented): Note an undocumented feature.
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ChangeLog.1 to the list. Ooops.
2019-04-14 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* gawktexi.in (Case-sensitivity): Document that single-byte
locales ignore case based on the current locale and not
always Latin-1.
2019-04-12 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* ChangeLog.1: Rotated ChangeLog into this file.
* ChangeLog: Created anew for gawk 5.0.0 and on.
* 5.0.0: Release tar ball made.
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