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2014-03-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Indexing improvements.

2014-03-02         John E. Malmberg      <wb8tyw@qsl.net>

	* gawktexi.in: Remove paragraph about obsolete VMS
	  compilers.  Update reference about building PCSI kit.

2014-02-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Lots of small fixes throughout, update of
	profiling output.  Finished fixes needed before a release.

2014-02-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Add a quote to the alarm clock program.

2014-02-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Update to latest.

2014-02-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Lots of small edits.

2014-02-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: More minor fixes, update UPDATE_MONTH.

2014-02-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: More minor fixes, in indexing.

2014-02-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in, gawkinet.texi: Minor fixes, mostly in indexing.
	* texinfo.tex: Update to latest.

2014-01-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Add `()' to names of extension functions in indexing
	commands and in one place in the text. Consistency, don'tcha know.

2014-01-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Add a few missing STARTOFRANGE comments.
	* gawk.1: Note that `(i, j) in array' doesn't work in for loops.
	Update the copyright year.

2014-01-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update info for Anders Wallin.

2014-01-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated to current version.
	* gawktexi.in: Add magic stuff so that PDFs have "dark red"
	links like before.

2014-01-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Feature History): New node.
	(Common Extensions): Update features now in mawk, too.

2014-12-14         John E. Malmberg      <wb8tyw@qsl.net>

	* gawktexi.in: Add information on building VMS PCSI kit.

2014-01-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Full Line Fields): New node.
	Update copyright year.

2013-12-29         John E. Malmberg      <wb8tyw@qsl.net>

	* gawktexi.in: VMS dynamic extensions.

2013-12-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: More minor additions / fixes.
	(Bugs): Add John Malmberg for VMS.

2013-12-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Minor additions / fixes.

2013-12-23         John E. Malmberg      <wb8tyw@qsl.net>

	* gawktexi.in: Document the VMS exit status encoding.

2013-12-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Additional Configuration Options): Document
	the --disable-extensions option.

2013-12-16         John E. Malmberg      <wb8tyw@qsl.net>

	* gawktexi.in: Updates to VMS sections.

2013-12-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix the presentation of asort() and asorti().
	Thanks to Andy Schorr for pointing out the problems.

2013-11-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update quotations to use @author, fix a few
	placements of footnotes.

2013-11-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update the list of files included in the gawk
	distribution and fix a few typos.

2013-11-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix the section and subsection headings in
	the Preface.  Also change the short title page to just
	"GNU Awk".

2013-10-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Add @shorttitlepage command.

2013-10-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Contributors): Update with more info.
	(Distributtion contents): Ditto.
	General: Remove all hyphens when used with "multi" prefix.

2013-10-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Other Environment Variables): Document GAWK_MSG_SRC
	variable and fix documentation of *_CHAIN_MAX variables.

2013-10-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Conversion, Printf Ordering): Better wording for
	descriptions of CONVFMT. Thanks to Hermann Peifer.

2013-09-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Other Versions): Updated info on MKS awk and
	some other links.

2013-09-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Readfile function): New node.

2013-09-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (FN, FFN, DF,DDF, PVERSION, CTL): Remove macros.
	They have no alternate versions and are just in the way.

2013-06-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Update from Karl, fixes a formating problem.
	* gawktexi.in (Conversions): Undo @w{} around @option{--posix}.

2013-06-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Type Functions): Add more explanation to isarray(),
	including that it makes no sense to call it at the global level.

2013-06-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Make it crystal clear not to use delete with FUNCTAB,
	or attempt to assign to it.

2013-05-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Internal File Description): Add "devbsize" element
	to stat data array.

2013-05-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawtexi.in: Sample filefuncs.c extension code: Change test from
	ifdef HAVE_ST_BLKSIZE to HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_BLKSIZE.

2013-05-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Quick Installation): Add a paragraph advising to
	run `make install'. Thanks to Hermann Peifer.

2013-05-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (gawkextlib): Add a note to use make install on
	gawkextlib itself. Thanks to Hermann Peifer.
	(Cut program): Fix test for skipping lines if -s was supplied.
	Thanks to David Ward <bamberward@gmail.com> for the bug report.

2013-05-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* 4.1.0: Release tar ball made.

2013-05-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in, gawk.1: Document that a regexp constant as the second
	argument to index() produces a fatal error.
	* gawktexi.in: More cleanups. Particularly, cleanup the index.

2013-04-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Renamed from gawkman.texi.
	Add a reference to Overton's IEEE Math book in MPFR chapter.
	Thanks to Nelson Beebe for the recommendation.
	* Makefile.am, sidebar.awk: Adjusted.

2013-04-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkman.texi: Cleanup in MPFR and API chapters.
	Also minor cleanup in design decisions. Add vim modeline.
	* api-figure2.fig: Minor fix.
	* api-figure2.eps, api-figure2.pdf, api-figure2.png: Regenerated.

2013-04-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Finish cleanup pass.
	* awkcard.in: Document that getline sets RT.
	* gawkman.texi: Ditto.

2013-04-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Start cleanup pass.
	* awkcard.in: Minor addition.
	* gawkman.texi: Minor fixes.

	* gawk.1, gawkman.texi: Document PROCINFO entries for API
	major and minor versions.

2013-04-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkman.texi: Update all the menus. Fix spelling errors. Remove
	some unneeded fakenodes.

2013-04-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkcard.in: Clean up and bring up to date.

2013-04-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* Makefile.am (gawk.ps, gawkinet.ps): Set TEXINPUTS to point
	at $(srcdir) to be able to include various figures if doing a
	build not in the source directory.

2013-04-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkman.texi: New file. This is now the real source for the
	manual and gawk.texi is generated from it.
	* sidebar.awk: New file to DTRT for sidebars in the manual.
	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Update.
	(gawk.texi): Add new rule to create / update it if necessary.

2013-04-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Pretty much finish cleanup. Move i18n chapter to
	after advanced features chapter.
	* texinfo.tex: Updated to current in texinfo SVN.

2013-04-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Continue cleanup.

2013-04-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Add link to 'pawk' - awk for python.
	Further cleanups.

2013-04-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Continue cleanup.

2013-04-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Continue cleanup.

2013-04-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Continue cleanup.

2013-04-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Continue cleanup.

2013-04-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Start a simple cleanup pass before the release.

2013-03-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Update URL for texinfo, fix a typo.

2013-03-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi (Getline/Pipe): Add a nice quote from BWK.

2013-02-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Restore centering of text images.

2013-02-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi (Other Versions): Remove the description of xmlgawk.

2013-02-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: For Info output, don't use @center on text images
	since the new makeinfo doesn't yet center the file as a block.
	Thanks to Karl Berry for the diagnostic.
	* gawk.1: Remove commented out doc for -m option which was for
	compatibility with BWK awk. His awk dropped it back in 2007.

2013-01-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* api-figure2.txt, api-figure3.txt: Convert tabs to spaces.
	* gawk.texi (Gory Details): Fix a command that new makeinfo doesn't
	recognize.
	(Conversion): Update example to be in POSIX mode. Thanks to
	Hermann Peifer.

2013-01-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi (Dynamic Typing): Clarify that gawk dies after the
	first fatal error on the test program. Thanks to Hermann Peifer.

2013-01-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi (Setting Precision): Fix a typo. 3.322 instead
	of 3.332.  Thanks to Hermann Peifer.

2013-01-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Minor edits to documentation for new inplace extension.

2013-01-08         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawk.texi: Add documentation for new inplace extension.

2013-01-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi, awkcard.in: Sync what mawk has. Main point of
	interest is that mawk supports the three time functions.

2013-01-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi, awkcard.in: Add Git Hub info for BWK awk.
	Update copyrights.
	* gawk.texi: Add Software Tools quote in chapter on library functions.

2012-12-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Remove doc sym_constant() API function.

2012-12-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* 4.0.2: Release tar ball made.

2012-12-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Remove an incorrect comment.
	* awkcard.in: Bump patch level.

2012-12-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi (Input Parsers): Add info on read_func.

2012-12-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Move design decisions on new API to appendix C.
	Move section on old extensions to last in the same appendix.

2012-12-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* macros: Update to GPL Version 3 and add copyright year.
	* texinfo.tex: Updated, from automake 1.12.6.
	* gawk.texi (Derived Files): A few minor fixes.

2012-12-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkforai.txt: Changed content to be pointers to the article
	to avoid copyright issues.
	* gawk.texi: Updated description of awkforai.txt.

2012-12-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi (I/O Functions): Document that fflush() is now part
	of POSIX. Fix in a few other places as well.
	* awkcard.in: Update for fflush().

2012-12-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Fix all @tex ... @end tex tables to use a different
	control character than @ so that the new makeinfo won't
	complain about them. Thanks to Karl Berry for the guidance.
	(Old Extension Mechansim): New node.

2012-12-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: API chapter. Sync with gawkapi.h

2012-11-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: API chapter. Change command for making shared libs
	to use gcc, not ld. Thanks to Nelson Beebe.
	(I/O Functions): Document new behavior for fflush().
	* gawk.1: Update for fflush().
	* awkcard.in: Ditto. And some general cleanup.

2012-11-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi (Future Extensions): Point to TODO file in the
	gawk dist.
	(Implementation Limitations): New node, from old LIMITATIONS file.

2012-11-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: In API chapter, document the full list of include
	files that need to be included.

2012-11-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: In API chapter, update behavior of stat function
	in the filefuncs extension.  Update the code example and prose
	to match the current code.

2012-11-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: In API chapter, update behavior of readdir extension.

2012-11-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Minor edits in API chapter.
	Thanks to Nelson Beebe.

2012-11-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Minor edits in API chapter.
	Thanks to Andrew Schorr.

2012-11-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Rearrange chapter order and separate into parts
	using @part for TeX.  Fix capitalization in @caption text.
	(Variable Scope): Document that arrays can be local also.
	Thanks to Denis Shirokov <cosmogen@gmail.com>, for pointing out
	the lack.

2012-11-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Semi-rationalize invocations of @image.

2012-11-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: New chapter on extension API.
	* api-figure1.pdf, api-figure2.pdf, api-figure3.pdf,
	general-program.pdf, process-flow.pdf: New files. Again.
	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Update. Again.

2012-11-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* api-figure1.pdf, api-figure2.pdf, api-figure3.pdf: Removed.
	* api-figure1.txt, api-figure2.txt, api-figure3.txt,
	api-figure1.png, api-figure2.png, api-figure3.png: New files.
	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Update.

	* gawk.texi: Fix up images.
	* general-program.pdf, process-flow.pdf: Removed.
	* general-program.png, process-flow.png,
	general-program.txt, process-flow.txt: New files.
	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Update.

2012-10-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* api-figure1.eps, api-figure1.fig, api-figure1.pdf,
	api-figure2.eps, api-figure2.fig, api-figure2.pdf,
	api-figure3.eps, api-figure3.fig, api-figure3.pdf: New files.
	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add the above.

2012-10-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi (Glossary): Document cookie, some cleanup of
	notes at the end.

2012-10-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: More doc on SYMTAB.

2012-10-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* Makefile.am (LN, install-data-hook, uninstall-hook): Removed. No
	longer needed since dgawk and pgawk are gone.

2012-10-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* Makefile.am: Add dgawk.1 to man page links created / removed
	on install / uninstall. (On stable branch.)

2012-10-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi (Glossary). Correct the full name for `ISO' per
	bug report from William Bresler <wbresler@acm.org>. Add a link
	to the ISO website.

	* gawk.texi, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Document FUNCTAB, SYMTAB, and
	PROCINFO["identifiers"]. Including that delete does not work
	on FUNCTAB and SYMTAB.

2012-09-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi (Nextfile Statement): Document that it's now part of POSIX
	and update the title.
	(Delete): Document that `delete array' is now part of POSIX.
	* awkcard.in: Adjust coloring for nextfile and delete array.

2012-09-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated to version 2012-09-05.06.

2012-08-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Minor edits, fix some spelling mistakes.

2012-08-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: More edits to chapter on arithmetic.
	Primarily English changes.

2012-08-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Emphasize more that floating point behavior is
	not a language issue. Add a pointer to POSIX bc.
	Move arithmetic chapter to later in the book, before chapter
	on dynamic extensions.

2012-08-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Update infrastructure to Automake 1.12.3.

2012-08-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Fixed a math bug in the chapter on multiple
	precision floating point. Thanks to John Haque.

2012-08-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Merged discussion of numbers from Appendix C into
	the chapter on arbitrary precision arithmetic. Did some surgery
	on that chapter to organize it a little better.

2012-08-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkcard.in, gawk.1, gawk.texi: Updated. Mostly for new API stuff
	but also some other things.
	* gawk.texi (Derived Files): New node.

2012-08-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* Makefile.am (install-data-hook): Install a dgawk.1 link to the
	man page also. Remove it on uninstall.

2012-07-29         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawk.texi: Document that RT is set by getline.

2012-07-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Document that and(), or(), and
	xor() can all take any number of arguments, with a minimum of two.

2012-06-10         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawk.texi: Rename gettimeofday function to getlocaltime, since
	the new time extension will provide gettimeofday.

2012-05-24         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawk.texi, gawk.1: Replace references to dlload with dl_load.
	But much more work needs to be done on the docs.
	
2012-05-19         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawk.texi, gawk.1: Document new -i option, and describe new default
	.awk suffix behavior.

2012-04-01         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawk.texi: Replace documentation of removed functions update_ERRNO and
	update_ERRNO_saved with descriptions new functions update_ERRNO_int,
	update_ERRNO_string and unset_ERRNO.  And fix a couple of examples
	to use update_ERRNO_int instead of update_ERRNO.

2012-03-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Minor style edits.

2012-03-21         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawk.texi, gawk.1: Document new @load keyword.

2012-03-20         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawk.texi, gawk.1: Add AWKLIBPATH.

2012-08-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi (Ranges and Locales): Clarified ranges and
	locales. Again.

2012-08-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi (PC Binary Installation): Document Eli Zaretskii's
	site.
	(Records): Update case of RS = "a". It only prints 1 if in
	POSIX mode. Thanks to Jeroen Schot who first reported it.

2012-07-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi (Ranges and Locales): Clarified ranges and
	locales.

2012-07-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi (Getline Notes): Discuss side effects in
	argument expression.

2012-06-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi, awkcard.in: Latest mawk understands /dev/stdin.

2012-04-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Add that -b affects output.

2012-04-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Update to latest from automake 1.12.

2012-04-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Update to latest from automake 1.11.4.

2012-04-11         John Haque     <j.eh@mchsi.com>

	* gawk.texi: Change RNDMODE to ROUNDMODE.
	* gawk.1, awkcard.in: Ditto.

2012-04-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Change --arbitrary-precision to --bignum.
	* gawk.1: Ditto.
	* awkcard.in: Add --bignum, RNDMODE, PREC.

2012-04-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Editing on new chapter on arbitrary precision numbers.

2012-03-31         John Haque     <j.eh@mchsi.com>

	* gawk.texi, gawk.1: Add text on support for arbitrary precision
	numbers.

2012-02-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi, gawk.1: And some minor edits thereunto.

2012-02-03         John Haque     <j.eh@mchsi.com>

	* gawk.texi, gawk.1: Add text on read timeout.

2011-12-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkcard.in, gawk.1: Minor edits after merge of executables.

2011-12-21         John Haque     <j.eh@mchsi.com>

	* gawk.texi: Updated sections on profiling and debugging
	after merging the exes. Document new options --debug and
	--load, and add a sub-section on loading extension library.
	* gawk.1: Same.
	* awkcard.in: Same.

2012-03-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* 4.0.1: Release tar ball made.

2012-02-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi, awkcard.in: Bump patch level.
	* texinfo.tex: Updated from Texinfo CVS.

2011-12-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Various typo fixes from mailing list.

2011-11-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Fix some .BR to be .B.

2011-11-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Further improvement in the discussion of sorted array
	traversal. Some sections reordered and text edited to suit.

2011-11-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Try to improve discussion of sorted array
	traversal.

2011-09-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Fix some spelling errors. Thanks to
	Jeroen Schot <schot@A-Eskwadraat.nl>.
	* gawk.texi: Some minor fixes.

2011-08-31         John Haque     <j.eh@mchsi.com>

	* gawk.texi: Updated gawk dynamic extension doc.

2011-07-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi (Gory Details): Restore text on historical behavior
	etc. and add explanation on gawk 4.0.x.

2011-07-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.texi: Add reference in node Expressions to node Precedence,
	based on suggestion from Dan Jacobson dated 4 Jun 2001.

2011-07-17  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* gawk.texi: Warn up-front (indirectly) that plain gawk is not
	compatible with SVR4 awk and with POSIX awk.  Describe how
	gawk differs from the GNU standard in its interpretation of
	POSIXLY_CORRECT.  (From mail dated 15 May 2001).

2011-06-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ChangeLog.0.
	* 4.0.0: Remake the tar ball.

2011-06-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* ChangeLog.0: Rotated ChangeLog into this file.
	* ChangeLog: Created anew for gawk 4.0.0 and on.
	* 4.0.0: Release tar ball made.