Message-Id: <200008211543.LAA20798@delorie.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 19:03:21 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Sender: halo1 AT zahav DOT net DOT il
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Gawk 3.0.6 uploaded
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

This is to announce that the DJGPP port of version 3.0.6 of the GNU
Awk package is available from SimTel.NET mirrors worldwide:

 ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gwk306b.zip
 ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gwk306s.zip

Gawk is an interpreter for a special-purpose programming language,
specifically suited for processing record-oriented files.  What makes
Gawk suited for such tasks is that the read loop is implicit, so all
you need to write is code that processes the records (or lines).  Each
record is automatically split into fields (the fields separator is
user-definable), which makes it easy to handle each part of the
record.

You can easily select the records for different kinds of processing
using regular expressions and built-in variables such as record
number.

Version 3.0.6 is a bug fix release only, pending further development
on 3.1.0.  (A short-lived release 3.0.5 had a couple of grave bugs, so
I didn't upload its port.)

See the file NEWS in the distribution for the list of fixed bugs.

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).