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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.

2012-10-02         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 better.

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-investments.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-investments.com>

	* gawk.texi: Rename gettimeofday function to getlocaltime, since
	the new time extension will provide gettimeofday.

2012-05-24         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.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-investments.com>

	* gawk.texi, gawk.1: Document new -i option, and describe new default
	.awk suffix behavior.

2012-04-01         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.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 unset_ERRNO.  And fix a couple of examples
	to use update_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-investments.com>

	* gawk.texi, gawk.1: Document new @load keyword.

2012-03-20         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.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 Zaretskii'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 precision 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 executables.

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 library.
	* 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.  Describe how
	gawk differs from the GNU standard in its interpretation 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.