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> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 20:51:04 +0200
> From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com]" <djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com>
> 
>    - Because the DJGPP port of GAWK has become officialy deprecated with this
>      release by the GAWK maintainer, the major porting effort has been invested
>      into the creation of all the standard files like config.bat, config.sed,
>      config.site, etc. that are also used in all the other DJGPP ports.
[...]
>    - As has been announce somewhere in the GAWK documentation, the DJGPP support
>      may be removed in the future.  I will try to port GAWK until the DJGPP code
>      gets removed.  I will not try to reimpleent DJGPP support once it has been
>      droped.  The GAWK development goes into direction multi-byte and  64-bit
>      systems and these are features that cannot be ported to DJGPP/DOS anyways.

The DJGPP port was deprecated because its long-time maintainer has
stepped down, and no one volunteered to take his place.  If you or
someone else are willing to volunteer, the DJGPP port will continue to
be part of the official Gawk distribution.

Thanks.