B. Installing gawk

This appendix provides instructions for installing gawk on the various platforms that are supported by the developers. The primary developer supports GNU/Linux (and Unix), whereas the other ports are contributed. See section Reporting Problems and Bugs, for the electronic mail addresses of the people who did the respective ports.

B.1 The gawk Distribution		What is in the gawk distribution.
B.2 Compiling and Installing gawk on Unix		Installing gawk under various versions of Unix.
B.3 Installation on Other Operating Systems
B.4 Unsupported Operating System Ports		Systems whose ports are no longer supported.
B.5 Reporting Problems and Bugs
B.6 Other Freely Available awk Implementations		Other freely available awk implementations.