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Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 13:46:38 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Gawk 3.1.1 uploaded
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This is to announce that the DJGPP port of version 3.1.1 of the GNU
Awk (Gawk) package is available from SimTel.NET mirrors worldwide:

 http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gwk311b.zip&name=gwk311b.zip
 http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gwk311s.zip&name=gwk311s.zip
 http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gwk311d.zip&name=gwk311d.zip

The first of these 3 files includes the binaries, the Info docs, and the 
auxiliary files required to run Gawk.  The second includes the sources 
for the programs and the docs.  The third includes documentation in HTML
and read-to-print formats (DVI and PostScript).

Gawk is an interpreter for text scanning and processing language named 
Awk.  It is specifically suited for programs that process text files one 
line at a time, but can also be used for much more complex tasks.

This is the first release of the 3.1.x series for which a DJGPP port is 
released (version 3.1.0 had significant bugs, so I decided not to 
distribute the ported binaries).   Version 3.1 of Gawk has two main new 
features:

  - Support for internationalization.  Not only does Gawk support the 
    gettext package to allow it to print its messages in languages other 
    than English, but you can also write Awk programs whose messages are 
    translatable to other languages (Gawk has new functions that provide 
    a programmatic interface to gettext).

  - Profiling of Awk programs.  The distribution now includes a separate 
    program named pgawk.exe that is identical to gawk.exe, but collects 
    profiling information about the Awk program it runs.

The bad news are that the first of these two features is not supported by 
this DJGPP port.  The DJGPP build of Gawk doesn't allow to add such a 
support easily, and I didn't have enough time to do it.  Patches for that 
are welcome ;-)

Profiling is fully supported, see the docs for the details.

Other noteworthy additions include bit operations and (of interest to 
this group) binary I/O.

Please see the file NEWS for the full list of changes and bugfixes.

Please direct any further discussions about this port to 
comp.os.msdos.djgpp news group (or write to its e-mail gateway 
djgpp AT delorie DOT com).

Enjoy

					Eli Zaretskii