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From: hankedr AT dms DOT auburn DOT edu (Darrel Hankerson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: next djgpp release
Date: 28 Aug 1996 01:00:27 GMT
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In-reply-to: Eli Zaretskii's message of Tue, 27 Aug 1996 05:16:37 GMT
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In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 960827071032 DOT 11185A-100000 AT is> Eli Zaretskii 
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

   On 27 Aug 1996 mschulter AT mach1 DOT mpu DOT com wrote:

   > Out of curiosity, is there any chance that GNU awk might be included; am
   > I correct in recalling that this is one of the more difficult programs
   > to port?

   Yes; no.  Yes, a DJGPP port of Gawk is ready since April, pending the next
   release.  No, the port was *extremely* easy.  In fact, Gawk 3.0.0 supports
   DJGPP out of the box, so only a few minor changes were necessary due to
   last-minute changes in DJGPP 2 (it seems that the original DJGPP v2
   support was tested with one of the beta versions). 

The GNUish collection contains a djgpp v2-compiled gawk (see below). 

The current gawk has a makefile which is designed to work under both
OS/2 and DOS, with several compiler/make combinations.  In particular,
gawk-3.0 should compile directly with djgppv2 (and v1) with the make
delivered with djgpp (and with dmake).

The only report that I have concerns the use of coff2exe.  This was
used in the makefile so that the same target would work with both
v1 and v2 djgpp.  We welcome any reports of problems in building
OS/2 and DOS gawk.

From the FAQ on comp.lang.awk:

      7.3.1 gawk precompiled for MS-DOS or OS/2
      32bit DOS (djgpp) and 16bit OS/2 and DOS (msc) versions are
      part of the GNUish project:

        <http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/>               (US)
        <ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/gnuish>
        <http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/pc/gnuish> (Germany)
        <http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/msdos/gnuish> (US)

      32bit OS/2 and DOS (emx) versions:

        <http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/gnu/script/gnuawk.zip> (Germany)
        <ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/pub/os2/lang/gnuawk.zip>          (US)

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