This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of Gawk, a pattern
scanning and processing language.  Gawk was written by Diane Barlow
Close, Arnold D. Robbins, Paul H. Rubin and Richard Stallman.

This package was put together by Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>,
from sources obtained from:
 prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/gawk-2.15.6.tar.gz

Changes:
 * added Debian GNU/Linux package maintenance system files

Gawk is Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994,
1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program;  if not, write to the Free Software
   Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/doc/copyright/GPL'.
