[rankin]aaareadme.txt                                            8-DEC-1990

     This directory contains two subdirectories:

[.extract] -- EXTRACT, a file manipulation utility for examining records
		within files and/or speicific columns of those records,
		and also capable of doing some translations & conversions.

[.gawk] -- GAWK, GNU awk, the FSF's implementation of the awk programming
		language.  This is a fully functional VMS port of GAWK.
		GAWK is a superset of nawk, which is a superset of awk,
		and both are commonly available tools in UN*X.  awk is
		an interpretive language which specializes in pattern
		matching and text manipulation.

			Pat Rankin
			Calif. State Legislature
			c/o Environmental Quality Laboratory, Caltech
	       Internet:  rankin@eql.caltech.edu
		 Bitnet:  rankin%eql@CITiago.bitnet
	    SPAN/HEPnet:  EQL::RANKIN    (EQL==5.970 or 6090)

Last minute submissions:
[.games]  -- Uno and Nethack, latest versions.
	Also contained is GCC 1.39 modified for VMS and linked under
VMS V4.7 for the convenience of the most VMS users. This is the current
latest VMS Gnu C compiler.