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 Acknowledgements
 ================
 
    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 initial draft of `The GAWK Manual' had the following
 acknowledgements:
 
      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.
 
    The following people provided many helpful comments on Edition 0.13
 of `The GAWK Manual': Rick Adams, Michael Brennan, Rich Burridge, Diane
 Close, Christopher ("Topher") Eliot, Michael Lijewski, Pat Rankin,
 Miriam Robbins, and Michal Jaegermann.
 
    The following people provided many helpful comments for Edition 1.0
 of `Effective AWK Programming': Karl Berry, Michael Brennan, Darrel
 Hankerson, Michal Jaegermann, Michael Lijewski, and Miriam Robbins.
 Pat Rankin, Michal Jaegermann, Darrel Hankerson and Scott Deifik
 updated their respective sections for Edition 1.0.
 
    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.
 
    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.
 
    Scott Deifik, Darrel Hankerson, Kai Uwe Rommel, Pat Rankin, and
 Michal Jaegermann (in no particular 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.
 
    Jeffrey Friedl provided invaluable help in tracking down a number of
 last minute problems with regular expressions in `gawk' 3.0.
 
    David and I would like to thank Brian Kernighan of Bell Labs 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.
 
    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 Linux
 system, not once, but twice, allowing me to do a lot of work while away
 from home.
 
    Finally, 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.
 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
 Atlanta, Georgia
 February, 1997
 

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