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This is to announce the release of patch 3 for gawk version 2.15.  Gawk
(GNU awk) provides a superset of POSIX awk, a pattern scanning and
data manipulation language. (Similar to PERL, only infinitely more
elegant. :-)

The relevant part of the NEWS file is appended below.  This version is
available as gawk-2.15.3.tar.gz in /pub/gnu on prep.ai.mit.edu (or one
of the mirror sites in the appended list).  Updates from 2.15.2 are in
gawk-2.15.2-2.15.3.diffs.gz. Note that the update file is a shell
script that renames and removes some files, and runs patch for you.

Bug reports should be mailed to bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu, with
copies to arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us and david@cs.dal.ca.  See the included
documentation for other addresses to use if you are addressing problems
specific to a non-Unix version of gawk.

I would like to thank the following people for their help in producing
this patch. All of them worked very hard, and I could not have done
this without them.

David Trueman	- Unix mainline code
Pat Rankin	- VMS
Michal Jaegerman - Atari and NeXT
Darrell Hankerson - OS/2 and DOS
Scott Deifik	- DOS
Kai Uwe Rommel	- OS/2
Rick Adams	- a number of last minute tests and suggestions
Miriam Robbins	- for her patience, and for sharing me with the computer.

Work on 2.16 proceeds. It will support GNU autoconf, a number of new features,
restructuring of the non-Unix support, and a massively revised manual. There
is no schedule for it yet.

Arnold Robbins -- The Basement Computer		| Laundry increases
Internet: arnold@skeeve.ATL.GA.US		| exponentially in the
UUCP:	emory!skeeve!arnold			| number of children.
Bitnet:	Forget it. Get on a real network.	|    -- Miriam Robbins
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Changes from 2.15.2 to 2.15.3
-----------------------------

Increased HASHSIZE to a decent number, 127 was way too small.

FILENAME is now the null string in a BEGIN rule.

Argument processing fixed for invalid options and missing arguments.

This version will build on VMS.  This included a fix to close all files
   and pipes opened with redirections before closing stdout and stderr.

More getpgrp() defines.

Changes for BSD44:  <sys/param.h> in io.c and Makefile.bsd44.

All directories in the distribution are now writeable.

Separated LDFLAGS and CFLAGS in Makefile.  CFLAGS can now be overridden by
  user.

Make dist now builds compressed archives ending in .gz and runs doschk.

Amiga port.

New getopt.c fixes Alpha OSF/1 problem.

Make clean now removes possible test output.

Improved algorithm for multiple adjacent string concatenations leads to
  performance improvements.

Fix nasty bug whereby command-line assignments, both with -v and at run time,
   could create variables with syntactically illegal names.

Fix obscure bug in printf with %0 flag and filling.

Add a lint check for substr if provided length exceeds remaining characters
   in string.

Update atari support.

PC support enhanced to include support for both DOS and OS/2. (Lots more
   #ifdefs. Sigh.)

Config files for Hitachi Unix and OSF/1, courtesy of Yoko Morishita
   (morisita@sra.co.jp)


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