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  There is a long tutorial in the distribution of gawk, but you might
have to use emacs to view it (texinfo format).
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         --Henry Churchyard     churchyh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu

I know of 4 alternatives to emacs for reading texinfo files.  3
are available on prep.ai.mit.edu.

1. Use the texinfo macros with TeX and just print the document.
This is the alternative which requires software not on prep (as far as I
know - you have to have TeX installed on your system).

2. Use texi2roff and convert the texinfo file to a nroff/troff version.

3. Use the info command to get a termcap/curses based interface to the
texinfo files - limited hypertext online readable doc.

4. Use the xinfo command to get an X11 interface to many texinfo files.  Xinfo
is a bit out of date and won't read some texinfo files - I don't know if
gawk is one of them.  If it won't read gawk texinfo, perhaps someone out
there who knows X11 would be kind enough to fix xinfo so that it can be
used...


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I know of several alternatives for you.  Perhaps someone else can provide 
you with details on how to locate them.

1. Contact a local library (college, university or public) and have a
literature search down for the awk programming language.  There have been
tutorials written in various Sun oriented and Unix oriented magazines 
teaching awk usage over the past few yrs.

For instance, the SIGPLAN Notices, V18 #12 - Dec. 1983 has an article
called "A Walk Through AWK" written by Leon S Levy of Bell Labs which
is very good.

2. Look for a document, which is available online somewhere, called:
"A Supplemental Document for AWK, - or -, Thanks Al, Pete, And Brian
Didn't Mention Much" by John W Pierce, Univ of California, San Diego.

3. Using gopher, go searching for guides to awk written at other colleges
and universitys.
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churchyh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Henry Churchyard) writes:
:   There is a long tutorial in the distribution of gawk, 
: but you might have to use emacs to view it (texinfo format).

There's also a postscript version of the gawk manual,
available via anonymous ftp:

     prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/gawk-ps-2.14.tar.Z

-jon

In article <1993Jan22.115524.17256@cas.org>, lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
> I know of several alternatives for you.  Perhaps someone else can provide 
> you with details on how to locate them.
> 
> 1. Contact a local library (college, university or public) and have a
> literature search down for the awk programming language.  There have been
> tutorials written in various Sun oriented and Unix oriented magazines 
> teaching awk usage over the past few yrs.
> 
> For instance, the SIGPLAN Notices, V18 #12 - Dec. 1983 has an article
> called "A Walk Through AWK" written by Leon S Levy of Bell Labs which
> is very good.
> 
> 2. Look for a document, which is available online somewhere, called:
> "A Supplemental Document for AWK, - or -, Thanks Al, Pete, And Brian
> Didn't Mention Much" by John W Pierce, Univ of California, San Diego.
> 
> 3. Using gopher, go searching for guides to awk written at other colleges
> and universitys.
> -- 
> Larry W. Virden                 UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lvirden
> Same Mbox: BITNET: lvirden@cas  INET: lvirden@cas.org
> Personal: 674 Falls Place,   Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-1614


Try finding "The AWK Programing Language" at your better bookstore.  It's
written by the original authors  and I have found it very helpful.  I got mine
at BOOKSTOP.

	Sincerely,
		Tom
-- 
Tom Bates

IBM Austin