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B.6 Summary
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   * The 'gawk' distribution is available from the GNU Project's main
     distribution site, 'ftp.gnu.org'.  The canonical build recipe is:

          wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-5.2.1.tar.gz
          tar -xvpzf gawk-5.2.1.tar.gz
          cd gawk-5.2.1
          ./configure && make && make check

          NOTE: Because of the 'https://' URL, you may have to supply
          the '--no-check-certificate' option to 'wget' to download the
          file.

   * 'gawk' may be built on non-POSIX systems as well.  The currently
     supported systems are MS-Windows using MSYS, MSYS2, MinGW, and
     Cygwin, and OpenVMS. Instructions for each system are included in
     this major node.

   * Bug reports should be sent via email to .  Bug
     reports should be in English and should include the version of
     'gawk', how it was compiled, and a short program and data file that
     demonstrate the problem.

   * Non-bug emails should be sent to .  Repeatedly
     sending non-bug emails to the bug list will get you blacklisted
     from it.

   * There are a number of other freely available 'awk' implementations.
     Many are POSIX-compliant; others are less so.