path: root/doc/ChangeLog

2023-01-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated to latest version from ftp.gnu.org.

2022-12-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated to latest version from GNULIB.

2022-12-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Add LaTeX support. Make the sidebar on the return
	value of close() into a subsection. And a few minor unrelated fixes
	and cleanups.
	* texinfo.tex: Updated from texinfo 7.0.1 distribution.

2022-12-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Sample Debugging Session): End gawk invocation
	with `--' and add some explanatory prose. Thanks to
	Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu> for the suggestion.

2022-12-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Switch git:// URLs to https:// URLs for Github.

2022-12-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* main.c (Auto-set): Remove documentation "mb_cur_max" and "utf8"
	entries in PROCINFO, they're not of any real use.
	(Feature History): Ditto.

2022-12-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Auto-set): Document PROCINFO["pma"].
	(Feature History): Ditto.
	And per Antonio Colombo, make sample output of --version
	consistent both places it's shown.

2022-12-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Update version stuff in sample
	output.

2022-12-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Document that using / not using
	-M across invocations doesn't work and issues a fatal error message.

2022-12-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Feature History): Document removal of use of
	libsigsegv.

2022-11-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* 5.2.1: Release tar ball made.

2022-11-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkcard.in: Update patchlevel.
	* gawktexi.in: Ditto.
	* texinfo.tex: Sync from GNULIB.
	* wordlist, wordlist6: Updated.
	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add wordlist5 and wordlist6.

2022-11-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Document that the CIFS filesystem
	doesn't work for backing files.
	* pm-gawk.1: Ditto.

2022-11-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Typo fix. Additional index entries for FS as ",",
	thanks to Antonio Colombo for the suggestion.

2022-11-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Other Versions): Add info on awkcc.
	* gawktexi.in (Feature History): Document "mb_cur_max" and "utf8"
	elements in PROCINFO.

2022-11-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Comma Separated Fields): Add indexing. Expand text
	some, particular that newlines can't be embedded.
	(Splitting By Content): Additional text that FS = "," obsoletes
	the example.
	* wordlist: Updated.
	* awkcard.in: Typo fix: CVS --> CSV.

2022-11-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Remove references to VAX/VMS, change "VMS" to
	"OpenVMS" where relevant, and remove stuff about older versions
	of OpenVMS.

2022-10-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Document that both Intel and
	M1 systems are now supported for macOS.

2022-10-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2022-10-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Statements/Lines): Add a pointer to the bug list
	for a patch that allows newlines inside parentheses without a
	backslash.
	(Persistent Memory): Document that PMA only works (right now)
	on Intel-based macOS systems.

2022-10-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Make usage consistent for VAX, macos, z/OS and a few
	other small cleanups.

2022-09-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Document REALLY_USE_PERSIST_MALLOC
	environment variable for testing unsupported systems.

2022-09-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Document that FreeBSD 13 and
	OpenBSD 7 are supported.

2022-09-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Extension Sample Read write array): Clarify how readall
	works. Thanks to J Naman, <gawker@703n.com> for the prod.
	(GNU Regexp Operators): Add some phraseology borrowed from GNU grep
	man page to further explain \B. Thanks to Neil R. Ormos
	<ormos-gnulists17@ormos.org> for the suggestion.

2022-09-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* 5.2.0: Release tar ball made.

2022-09-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2022-09-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkinet.texi: Fix update date and version.

2022-09-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in(String Functions): Document "," as separator
	for split().

2022-08-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkcard.in: Add a sentence on FS = "," to the reference card.

2022-08-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Comma Separated Fields): New node on CSV parsing.
	(Field Splitting Summary): Add entry about FS = ",".

	Note to self, FS = "," invalidates earlier examples in the
	manual. Dang!!!

2022-08-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Bug definition): Add a note about fuzzers.

2022-08-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Further editing in the VMS bits. Add a note
	that the gawkbug script isn't available under VMS or MinGW.

2022-08-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix up the formatting in the VMS bits.
	* wordlist: Updated.

	Unrelated:

	* pm-gawk.texi: Updated from Terence Kelly.

2202-08-16         John E. Malmberg      <wb8tyw@qsl.net>

	* gawktexi.in (OpenVMS):  Start of support for VMS Software, Inc.
	releases. End of support for VAX/VMS and older OpenVMS versions.

2022-08-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Typo fix.

	Semi-related:

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Add references to and info about
	the new "Perstistent Memory gawk User Manual" from Terence Kelly.
	(Distribution contents): Updated and corrected.
	* pm-gawk.texi: New file.
	* Makefile.am: Add appropriate stuff to build and install
	the various versions of the pm-gawk.texi file.

2022-08-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Small addition.
	* pm-gawk.1: Add a SEE ALSO section with appropriate
	pointers, including to Terence Kelly's website for pma.
	And some more cleanups.

2022-08-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* pm-gawk.1: New file.
	* Makefile.am: Add stuff to integrate the new man page into
	all the facilities: Installation, spell check, ps and pdf generation.

2022-08-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Small typo fixes.

2022-08-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Document (extremely briefly)
	that user-defined functions are also persistent.

2022-08-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: For `gawk --version' output, unwrap the result,
	after code change in main.c to get just the "Avon 7" part of the
	version sting.

2022-08-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: For `gawk --version' output, wrap the result
	onto a second line. Thank you PMA for a too long version string.

2022-08-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Document not to mix runs of
	gawk with and without -M for the same backing file.

2022-08-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Document that gawk's variables
	are reset. Update the PMA version information in the example.
	(Igawk Program): Note that igawk is no longer installed.

2022-08-02  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>

	* gawktexi.in (PC Compiling): Update for MinGW build.

2022-07-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Library Functions): Remove nextfile from the list
	of gawk extensions. It's now standard
	* Persistent Memory: Documnent that PMA and -M don't mix.

2022-07-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Document how to tell if you
	have PMA. Thanks to Antonio Colombo for pointing this out.
	Also update the version message in the similar MPFR discussion.

2022-07-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Document the PMA_VERBOSITY
	environment variable. Eveywhere: do thorough indexing of all
	environment variables.

2022-07-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkworkflow.texi: Typo fix.
	* wordlist2: Add some more words.
	* Makefile.am: Update copyright.
	* gawk.1: Remove accidental blank line.

2022-07-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Document that Solaris also
	works OK.

2022-07-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkcard.in: Update version.
	* gawk.1: Ditto.
	* gawktexi.in (UPDATE-MONTH, VERSION, PATCHLEVEL, EDITION): Update.
	(Type functions): Update how array elements are handled.
	(Persistent Memory): More updates.
	(Feature History): Add FNV1-A hash algorithm.

2022-07-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkworkflow.texi: Some cleanups and updates.

2022-07-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Additional indexing. Thanks to Antonio
	Columbo for the report.

2022-07-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Remove stuff related to DJGPP.
	(POSIX/GNU): Updated.
	* wordlist, wordlist3: Updated.

2022-07-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (POSIX/GNU): Updated.
	(Feature History): Updated.

2022-07-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Remove stuff related to OS/2.

2022-06-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Note that only 64-bit
	systems are supported.

2022-06-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkcard.in (Environment Variables): Shorten text and add
	GAWK_PERSIST_FILE description.

2022-06-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Additional updates.

2022-06-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: MPFR is now "on parole" instead of deprecated.
	* gawktexi.in: Ditto. Update copyright year.

2022-06-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Typo fix.
	* wordlist, wordlist2, wordlist5: Updated.
	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): Updated after comments from
	Terence Kelly.

2022-06-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent  Memory): Document --disable-pma.
	Document that Mac OS works.

2022-06-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Persistent Memory): New section.

2022-06-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Document GAWK_PERSIST_FILE.

2022-06-06         Andrew J. Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Array Functions): Add new function destroy_array.

2022-05-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Other Versions): Add reference to su8
	gawk extensions.

2022-05-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix spelling errors. Thanks to Antonio
	Columbo for the report.
	* wordlist: Updated with new words.

2022-05-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (MPFR Features): Add subsections for deprecating
	and the intro material.
	(Obsolete): Add note about MPFR features.

2022-05-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Document that -M is deprecated.
	* gawktexi.in (Options): Ditto.
	(MPFR features): Ditto.
	(Other Environment Variables): Add GAWK_NO_MPFR_WARN.

2022-04-29         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix a some minor grammar issues.
	Thanks to Alan Welsh <alan.welsh@proton.me> for the reports.

	Unrelated:

	* gawktexi.in (Array Example): After some whining in comp.lang.awk,
	make the filenames clearer and add some more explanatory text.

2022-04-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix a typo. Thanks to Alan Welsh <alan.welsh@proton.me>
	for the report.
	* wordlist: Updated.

2022-04-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2022-04-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Adding Code): Update coding style instructions.
	* gawkbug.1: Small changes.

2022-03-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Formatting fixes.

2022-03-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Chopped down in size by about 40%.
	* wordlist3: Updated for new man page.
	* wordlist: Updated since it needed it.

2022-03-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Typo fix. Thanks to Antonio Columbo for pointing
	it out.

2022-02-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Bugs): Updated to describe the gawkbug program.
	* awkcard.in: Ditto.

2022-02-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkbug.1, wordlist5: New files.
	* Makefile.am: Adjust everything for additional man page.

2022-02-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Array Sorting Functions): Add a note to be careful
	to use local variables in comparison functions.

2022-02-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (API Ownership of MPFR and GMP Values): Rework for
	changes to code.

2022-02-23         Andrew J. Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Extension Sample Read write array): Fix description of
	readall to say readall instead of writeall.

2022-02-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkcard.in: Update --re-interval description.
	* gawktexi.in: Ditto, in all relevant places.

2022-02-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Indirect Calls): Expand discussion of calling
	built-in functions directly.
	(POSIX Floating Point Problems): Add a note that the sign of
	NaN values can vary.

2022-01-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Indirect Calls): Use `the_function' everywhere.
	Thanks to John Naman, <gawker@703n.com> for the report.

2021-12-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2021-12-08         Andrew J. Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document new rwarray functions writeall and readall.
	* wordlist: Add readall and writeall.

2021-11-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Add missing @item for AWKgo. Thanks to Antonio
	Columbo. Small fix in Eli Zaretskii's addition.

2021-11-24  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>

	* gawktexi.in (PC Binary Installation): Mention the need for
	installing libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll.

2021-11-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Add info about AWKgo, an awk to go translator.

2021-11-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Getopt Function): Note that long option support
	was contributed by Greg Minshall, and add him to the index.

2021-11-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix a small typo.  Thanks to J Naman
	<gawker@703n.com> for the report.

2021-11-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.info: Regenerated, using makeinfo 6.8.

2021-11-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Change @inforef to @xref in preparation
	for Texinfo 6.8.

2021-10-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* 5.1.1: Release tar ball made.

2021-10-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (FS versus FPAT): New subsection.
	(String Functions): Reference it.

2021-10-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkcard.in, gawkinet.texi, gawkworkflow.texi: Update copyright year.

2021-10-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Clarify that initialization and increment parts of
	a for loop can't use the C comma operator.  Thanks to J Naman
	<gawker@703n.com> for pointing out the doc was too subtle.

	Unrelated: further expand the bug reporting text and discussion
	about comp.lang.awk.

	Unrelated: Fix some spelling errors. Also, convert some
	Unicode characters back into plain ASCII.

	* wordlist: Updated.
	* wordlist3: Updated.

2021-10-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Continue clarifying typeof() usage. And other fixes.
	All thanks to Antonio Columbo.
	(UPDATE-MONTH): Set to October. Also thanks to Antonio.

2021-10-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Clarify typeof() usage with array elements
	created by reference.

2021-09-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Small cleanups from Antonio Columbo.  General
	review of usage of @code.

2021-09-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>
	
	* gawktexi.in (Building the Documentation): Improve the text,
	add info on building the HTML doc.  Thanks to Antonio Columbo
	for the encouragement.
	(Distribution Contents): Update with more files.

2021-09-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Strong Regexp Constants): Document that they
	can be assigned with -v. Thanks to J Naman <gawker@703n.com>
	for the report.

2021-09-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Compiling from Git): New node.
	(Building the Documentation): New node.
	Set the update month and update the patch level.
	* awkcard.in: Update tar ball version.

2021-09-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Interval Expressions): Add some notes borrowed from
	Paul Eggert in the grep documentation.

2021-08-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Strong Regexp Constants): Document behavior
	when used as third argument of sub() or gsub().
	(String Functions): Document that gensub() always returns
	a string.

2021-07-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Remove obsolete bits relating to VMS.

2021-07-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Make @EMAIL usage consistent everywhere.
	Thanks to Antonio Columbo for pointing it out.

2021-07-07         Andrew J. Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Isnumeric Function): Improve description of how
	isnumeric differs from the traditional x+0 == x test.

2021-07-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Document that asort() and asorti() allow the same array to
	be passed for the first and second arguments.
	* gawktexi.in (String Functions, Array Sorting Functions): Ditto.
	Thanks to Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> for the report.

2021-07-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Bugs): Added discussion of what is and is not
	a bug, as well as of the new help-gawk@gnu.org list and how
	things are now managed.

2021-06-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2021-06-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Isnumeric Function): Some final (we hope) tweaks.

2021-06-24         Andrew J. Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Isnumeric Function): Fix location of endfile
	tag, and add a comment about how this differs from x+0 == x.

2021-06-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Isnumeric Function): Add an additional paragraph
	from Andy.  Turn some real tabs into spaces.

2021-06-22         Andrew J. Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Isnumeric Function): New node.

2021-06-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Performance bugs): New section.
	(Compiling with MPFR): New section. Thanks to
	Peter Lindgren <ogswd-awk@yahoo.com> for the suggestion.

2021-06-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Internationalization): Fix indexing. Thanks to
	Antonio Columbo for pointing it out.

2021-06-17         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Internationalization): Add some appropriate quotes.
	(Feature History): Some minor edits.

2021-06-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* wordlist: Add some more words.

2021-05-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Feature History): Fix a typo and clarify wording.
	Additionally, fix some other small mistakes.
	* gawk.1: Also, fix a small typo.

	Thanks to Antonio Columbo for the reports.

2021-05-27         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Feature History): Add features from 5.1.1.

2021-05-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* CMakeLists.txt: Removed.

2021-05-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Typo fix.

2021-05-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Renamed bool to mkbool.

2021-04-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Revise doc for bools; they're now just numbers
	with an extra flag.
	* gawk.1: Ditto.
	* awkcard.in: Ditto.

2021-04-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Controlling Scanning): Document bools for
	"@val_type_asc".
	* awkcard.in: Add doc on bool() function.

2021-04-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Finish documenting bool features.
	* gawk.1: Add minimal documentation on bool.

2021-04-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Start documenting bool features.

2021-04-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Update menues.

2021-03-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Regexp Operator Details): Added a sidebar on
	matching the empty regexp. Thanks to Arkadiusz Drabczyk
	<arkadiusz@drabczyk.org> for pointing out the lack of
	documentation.

2021-03-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Constructor Functions): Add doc on `make_bool'.

2021-03-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Other Environment Variables): Document "fnv1a"
	possible value for AWK_HASH environment variable.

2021-03-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2021-02-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Strange values): Fix a typo in the awk test
	program. Make the C and Awk versions print "True" and
	"False" to match Python, making comparisons easier. Thanks to
	Antonio Columbo for the suggestions.

2021-01-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix some spelling errors.
	* gawkinet.texi: Ditto.
	* wordlist, wordlist2, wordlist4: Updated.

2021-01-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: A number of small fixes, thanks to
	Antonio Columbo.

	Unrelated:

	* texinfo.tex: Updated via GNULIB.

2021-01-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Other Versions): Add information on more
	awk implementations.

2021-01-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (gawk split records): Document that RS = "()"
	doesn't split records on the null string.
	(Regexp Field Splitting): Ditto, for FS.

2020-12-28         Juergen Kahrs         <Juergen.Kahrs@googlemail.com>

	* gawkinet.texi: Update mailpopclient.

2020-12-27         Juergen Kahrs         <Juergen.Kahrs@googlemail.com>

	* gawkinet.texi: Update finger client, add catpipe
	client and server.

2020-12-26         Juergen Kahrs         <Juergen.Kahrs@googlemail.com>

	* gawkinet.texi: Update datetime client.

2020-12-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (More CSV): Add indexing and reference to
	Manuel Collado's CSVMODE library.

2020-12-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (awk split records): Remove the bit about POSIX
	mode not treating newline as a field separator; it's been not
	true since 2015. Thanks to Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@drabczyk.org>
	for the report.

2020-12-07         Juergen Kahrs         <Juergen.Kahrs@googlemail.com>

	* gawkinet.texi: Fix a number of FIXMEs.

2020-12-04         Juergen Kahrs         <Juergen.Kahrs@googlemail.com>

	* gawkinet.texi: Update urefs.

2020-12-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkinet.texi: Lots of cleanup edits. Bump the minor part
	of the edition.
	* gawktexi.in: New section on extension philosphy.

2020-11-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkworkflow.texi: Add an additional web resource.
	* gawktexi.in: More edits in sample programs chapter.

2020-11-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Strange values): Correct the description of what
	happens with infinity. Thanks to Antonio Columbo for pointing
	out the problem.

2020-11-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Nextfile Statement): Clarify what happens in
	a BEGINFILE rule.
	* gawktexi.in: Additional small fixes.

2020-11-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Strange values): Add test programs inside
	@ignore; extracted to example directory.

2020-11-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Samll improvement in strange numbers section.

2020-11-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Strange values): New section on NaN and infinity.
	Update some other bits to point to it.
	* wordlist: Updated with more words.

2020-11-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Nextfile Statement): Clarify what happens in
	a BEGINFILE rule.

2020-10-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2020-10-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Other Arguments): Add a sidebar about quoting shell
	variables on the command line. Based on a bug list discussion in 2018.

2020-10-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2020-10-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: After review, remove/update some FIXMEs, and
	and fix a markup error.

2020-10-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Add an index entry.

2020-10-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Explain `ls -l' earlier in the book, and small wording
	improvement in explanation of options. Thanks to Yehezkel Bernat.
	<yehezkelshb@gmail.com> for the comments.

2020-10-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkworkflow.texi: Fix a spelling error.
	* wordlist, wordlist2: Updated.

2020-10-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Add an additional dark corner notation.

2020-10-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Minor edit related to compatiblity mode and
	unknown options. Thanks to Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@drabczyk.org>
	for raising the issue.
	
	Unrelated:

	* gawktexi.in: A number of small fixes, mostly thanks to
	Antonio Columbo.

2020-10-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Minor edits.

	Unrelated:

	* gawktexi.in (Wc Program): Update to POSIX, support both bytes
	and characters via the gawkextlib mbs extension.

	Unrelated:

	* gawktexi.in: Remove TODO at end of file related to recursion;
	it's already handled.

2020-10-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Split Program): Rewrite split to be POSIX
	compliant. Update all the prose.
	* wordlist: Update.

2020-09-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix a spelling error.
	* wordlist, wordlist2, wordlist3: Remove words that spell
	now recognizes as real words.
	* gawkinet.texi: Fix a spelling error.
	* Makefile.am (spellinet): New target.
	* wordlist4: New file.

2020-09-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Minor fixes. Thanks to Antonio Columbo for
	bringing them to my attention.

2020-09-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Egrep Program): Improve to be POSIX compliant.
	Update explanatory text as well.

2020-09-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Id Program): Rewrite to be POSIX compliant.
	Update explanatory text as well.

2020-09-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Index BWK quotes separately. Finish using "BWK awk"
	everywhere. Fix up text with exercise for uniq.awk in both
	places.

2020-09-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Minor edits.
	* awkcard.in: Ditto.

2020-08-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Uniq Program): Updated uniq.awk to follow 2020 POSIX.

2020-08-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix some small mistakes / typos.
	Adjust the prose some as well.

2020-08-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (BEGINFILE/ENDFILE): Document that as of 5.1.1, in
	a BEGINFILE, the record and fields are cleared.  Fixes an issue
	reported by Pat Rankin in May, 2011.  Remove the related FIXME,
	as well as a FIXME later on that is no longer relevant. Clarify
	the prose in the whole section.

2020-08-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Arithmetic Ops): Update text to fix a FIXME. Document
	that modulus is POSIX compliant.

2020-08-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (String Functions): Fix a typo in the description
	of patsplit. Thanks to Nelson H.F. Beebe for the report.

2020-08-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Profiling): Add explanation of function order.

2020-07-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Change a FIXME into a real cross reference. Thanks
	to Antonio Columbo for the report.

2020-07-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document that get_mpfr and get_mpz are obsolete
	and revise doc on handling MPFR and GMP values from an
	extension function.

2020-07-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document how to handle MPFR and GMP values
	from an extension function.

	Unrelated:

	* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2020-07-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (General Data Types): Document that MPFR
	data types are copied and have to be freed in the
	extension.

2020-07-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1, gawktexi.in: Document -I/--trace option.
	* awkcard.in: Document -I/--trace option.

2020-06-25         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Applied some more troff "lint" fixes.
	Thanks to Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>.

2020-06-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkinet.texi: Small fixes, and revise the indexing to use
	new Texinfo features.

2020-06-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkworkflow.texi: Revise indexing to use new Texinfo features.

2020-06-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (String Functions): Update doc on asort and asorti
	w.r.t. SYMTAB and FUNCTAB.

2020-06-10         Andrew J. Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* bc_notes: Add new field `unsigned long long ldl' to INSTRUCTION,
	and update the definition of exec_count.

2020-06-09         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Implementation Limits): Update the table to be more
	accurate and up to date. Note units of limits, per request from
	Ed Morton <mortoneccc@comcast.net>.

2020-06-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2020-06-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Improvements in switch statement and typed
	regex sections.

2020-05-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Applied a number of troff "lint" fixes.
	Thanks to Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>.

2020-05-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkworkflow.texi: Minor updates.
	* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2020-05-08         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkinet.texi: Remove special casing for statist image for
	Info. Makeinfo handles it just fine.

2020-04-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkinet.texi: Include ASCII Art version of the statist
	image. Thanks again to Manuel Collado.  Also update copyright
	year and update month.
	Also thanks to Manuel, remove extra @insertcopying for Info.
	* statist.txt: New file.

2020-04-20         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkinet.texi: Include statist figure in HTML version. Thanks
	to Manuel Collado for pointing this out.

2020-04-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* 5.1.0: Release tar ball made.

2020-04-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Small typo fixes. Thanks to Antonio Columbo
	for pointing them out.

2020-04-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Contribution from Manuel Collado related
	to CSV processing.

2020-04-10         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in, gawk.1: Fix some spelling errors.
	* wordlist, wordlist2, wordlist3: Updated with more words.

2020-04-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Clarify about whitespace.

2020-03-30         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in, gawk.1, awkcard.in: Minor edits before release.

2020-03-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix up references to POSIX standard. Thanks to
	Antonio Columbo for the pointers.

2020-03-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated, via GNULIB.
	* gawktexi.in: Misc updates.

2020-03-09         Andrew J. Schorr      <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>

	* gawktexi.in (@val_str_asc, @val_num_asc, @val_str_desc,
	@val_num_desc): Update descriptions to reflect that the index
	strings are now used as a tie-breaker and @val_type_* is used
	for comparing non-scalars.

2020-03-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Revised info on default values for AWKPATH
	and AWKLIBPATH. Thanks to Jannick for the push.
	* gawktexi.in: Document MSYS2 support and update the
	updated month.

2020-02-02         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Getopt Function): Add support for long options,
	contributed by Greg Minshall <minshall@acm.org>.

2020-01-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document arry sorting by value for FUNCTAB.
	Document that SYMTAB and FUNCTAB cannot be used with
	asort() or asorti().

2020-01-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Escape Sequences): Stronger wording for \/
	and \". Suggested by Jakub Martisko <jamartis@redhat.com>.

2020-01-19         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawkinet.info: Rebuilt using makeinfo 6.7.

2020-01-01         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (History Sorting): Supply a shorter version of the
	program. Thanks to Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl>.

2019-12-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* implementation-notes.txt: New file.

2019-12-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Use `@codequoteundirected on' and
	`@codequotebacktick on' to get straight quotes in PDF. Thanks
	to empirical@quantbo.com for the report and to Assaf Gordon
	for the pointer to the fix.

2019-11-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document that the time extension is now obsolete.

2019-11-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Document that readdir extension can cause a
	fatal error, which should be handled with BEGINFILE.
	* gawk.1: Ditto.

2019-10-16         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkcard.in: BWK awk now supports RS as regexp, so remove the
	"not nawk" note.
	* gawktexi.in: Updates for BWK awk and RS as regexp.

2019-10-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix typo related to @/.../. Thanks to
	Mark Krauze <marcuscruse@ya.ru> for the report.

2019-10-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated.

2019-09-24         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Take advantage of new indexing features in
	Texinfo 6.7.
	* sidebar.awk: Ditto.
	* texinfo.tex: Updated from Texinfo 6.7 distribution.

2019-08-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkcard.in: Fixes and updates. Some cleanup.

2019-08-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated.

2019-08-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Other Arguments): Document the old trick of
	using ./count=1 to name a file that looks like a variable
	assignment. Thanks to Ed Morton <mortoneccc@comcast.net>
	for the suggestion.

2019-07-23         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1: Fix typo, update edition. Thanks to Antonio
	Columbo for the pointers.
	* gawktexi.in: Update EDITION. Thanks to Antonio Columbo.
	Fix two typos. Thanks to Mark Krauze.

2019-07-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* awkcard.in, gawk.1, gawkinet.texi, gawktexi.in: Copyrights
	updated, spell checked.
	* wordlist, wordlist3: Updated.

2019-06-26         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Extension Sample Inplace): Fix backwards
	compatibility. Thanks to Andrew Schorr for most of the change.

2019-06-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Input Exercises): Remove exercise that is
	no longer relevant. Thanks to Mark Krauze <daburashka@ya.ru>
	for pointing this out.

2019-06-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* texinfo.tex: Updated from GNULIB.

2019-06-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* 5.0.1: Release tar ball made.

2019-06-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Plain Getline): Improve the program and show
	sample input and output. Thanks to Mark Krauze <daburashka@ya.ru>
	for some of the changes.
	Unrelated: Set the update month.
	* awkcard.in: Bump version in download info.

2019-06-11         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Regexp Operator Details): Add a paragraph
	describing how unmatched left and right parentheses work.
	Thanks to Neil Ormos <ormos-gnulists17@ormos.org>
	for pointing out the need.

2019-06-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Type Functions): Clarify isarray() and
	typeof() behavior. Thanks to  Mark Krauze <daburashka@ya.ru>,
	for pointing out the issues.

2019-06-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Invoking Summary): Added nice summarization of
	argument processing contributed by Neil R. Ormos,
	<ormos-gnulists17@ormos.org>.

2019-05-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawk.1, gawktexi.in: Document --lint=no-ext.

2019-05-06         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in: Fix some typos.  Thanks to Mark Krauze
	<daburashka@ya.ru>, for pointing them out.
	(Options): Document new feature in --sandbox, that you can't
	add files that weren't there to start with.

2019-05-05         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Additional Configuration Options): Document that
	--disable-extensions also disables the extensions! Thanks to
	Mark Krauze <daburashka@ya.ru>, for pointing it out.

2019-04-28         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Options): Fix a copy/paste error. Thanks to
	Mark Krauze <daburashka@ya.ru>, for pointing it out.

2019-04-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Undocumented): Fix a typo. Thanks to Antonio Columbo
	for pointing it out.

2019-04-21         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Limitations): Provide brief instructions
	on how to use use a temporary file in a script with
	the debugger.  Thanks to Holger Klene <h.klene@gmx.de>
	for the discussion.
	(Multiple Lines): Note that POSIX seems to require \n as
	separator for all values of FS, but that in reality it
	doesn't apply to regexps; this is a POSIX bug.
	(Options): Document clearly that if no -f or -e, anything
	after the program text is placed into ARGV and not
	parsed for options. Thanks to Neil Ormos <ormos-gnulists17@ormos.org>
	for the tip.
	(Other Versions): Add a link to Mircea Neacsu's embeddable
	awk interpreter.

2019-04-18         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Undocumented): Note an undocumented feature.
	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ChangeLog.1 to the list. Ooops.

2019-04-14         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* gawktexi.in (Case-sensitivity): Document that single-byte
	locales ignore case based on the current locale and not
	always Latin-1.

2019-04-12         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>

	* ChangeLog.1: Rotated ChangeLog into this file.
	* ChangeLog: Created anew for gawk 5.0.0 and on.
	* 5.0.0: Release tar ball made.