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Acknowledgments
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   The initial draft of `The GAWK Manual' had the following
acknowledgments:

     Many people need to be thanked for their assistance in producing
     this manual.  Jay Fenlason contributed many ideas and sample
     programs.  Richard Mlynarik and Robert Chassell gave helpful
     comments on drafts of this manual.  The paper `A Supplemental
     Document for `awk'' by John W.  Pierce of the Chemistry Department
     at UC San Diego, pinpointed several issues relevant both to `awk'
     implementation and to this manual, that would otherwise have
     escaped us.

   I would like to acknowledge Richard M. Stallman, for his vision of a
better world and for his courage in founding the FSF and starting the
GNU project.

   The following people (in alphabetical order) provided helpful
comments on various versions of this book, up to and including this
edition.  Rick Adams, Nelson H.F. Beebe, Karl Berry, Dr. Michael
Brennan, Rich Burridge, Claire Coutier, Diane Close, Scott Deifik,
Christopher ("Topher") Eliot, Jeffrey Friedl, Dr. Darrel Hankerson,
Michal Jaegermann, Dr. Richard J. LeBlanc, Michael Lijewski, Pat Rankin,
Miriam Robbins, Mary Sheehan, and Chuck Toporek.

   Robert J. Chassell provided much valuable advice on the use of
Texinfo.  He also deserves special thanks for convincing me _not_ to
title this Info file `How To Gawk Politely'.  Karl Berry helped
significantly with the TeX part of Texinfo.

   I would like to thank Marshall and Elaine Hartholz of Seattle and
Dr. Bert and Rita Schreiber of Detroit for large amounts of quiet
vacation time in their homes, which allowed me to make significant
progress on this Info file and on `gawk' itself.

   Phil Hughes of SSC contributed in a very important way by loaning me
his laptop GNU/Linux system, not once, but twice, which allowed me to
do a lot of work while away from home.

   David Trueman deserves special credit; he has done a yeoman job of
evolving `gawk' so that it performs well and without bugs.  Although he
is no longer involved with `gawk', working with him on this project was
a significant pleasure.

   The intrepid members of the GNITS mailing list, and most notably
Ulrich Drepper, provided invaluable help and feedback for the design of
the internationalization features.

   Nelson Beebe, Martin Brown, Scott Deifik, Darrel Hankerson, Michal
Jaegermann, Ju"rgen Kahrs, Pat Rankin, Kai Uwe Rommel, and Eli Zaretskii
(in alphabetical order) are long-time members of the `gawk' "crack
portability team."  Without their hard work and help, `gawk' would not
be nearly the fine program it is today.  It has been and continues to
be a pleasure working with this team of fine people.

   David and I would like to thank Brian Kernighan of Bell Laboratories
for invaluable assistance during the testing and debugging of `gawk',
and for help in clarifying numerous points about the language.  We
could not have done nearly as good a job on either `gawk' or its
documentation without his help.

   Chuck Toporek, Mary Sheehan, and Claire Coutier of O'Reilly &
Associates contributed significant editorial help for this Info file
for the 3.1 release of `gawk'.

   I must thank my wonderful wife, Miriam, for her patience through the
many versions of this project, for her proof-reading, and for sharing
me with the computer.  I would like to thank my parents for their love,
and for the grace with which they raised and educated me.  Finally, I
also must acknowledge my gratitude to G-d, for the many opportunities
He has sent my way, as well as for the gifts He has given me with which
to take advantage of those opportunities.



Arnold Robbins
Nof Ayalon
ISRAEL
March, 2001