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Copyright (C) 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. User Friendly Copyright (C) 2000 J.D. "Iliad" Frazier. Reprinted by permission. This is Edition 1.1 of TCP/IP Internetworking With @command{gawk}, for the 3.1.0 (or later) version of the GNU implementation of AWK.
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In May of 1997, J@"urgen Kahrs felt the need for network access from @command{awk}, and, with a little help from me, set about adding features to do this for @command{gawk}. At that time, he wrote the bulk of this book.
The code and documentation were added to the @command{gawk} 3.1 development tree, and languished somewhat until I could finally get down to some serious work on that version of @command{gawk}. This finally happened in the middle of 2000.
Meantime, J@"urgen wrote an article about the Internet special files and `|&' operator for Linux Journal, and made a networking patch for the production versions of @command{gawk} available from his home page. In August of 2000 (for @command{gawk} 3.0.6), this patch also made it to the main GNU @command{ftp} distribution site.
For release with @command{gawk}, I edited J@"urgen's prose for English grammar and style, as he is not a native English speaker. I also rearranged the material somewhat for what I felt was a better order of presentation, and (re)wrote some of the introductory material.
The majority of this document and the code are his work, and the high quality and interesting ideas speak for themselves. It is my hope that these features will be of significant value to the @command{awk} community.
Arnold Robbins
Nof Ayalon, ISRAEL
March, 2001
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