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gawkIf you find that you want to enhance gawk in a significant
fashion, you are perfectly free to do so. That is the point of having
free software; the source code is available and you are free to change
it as you want (see Copying).
This section discusses the ways you might want to change gawk
as well as any considerations you should bear in mind.
| • Accessing The Source: | Accessing the Git repository. | |
| • Adding Code: | Adding code to the main body of
gawk.
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| • New Ports: | Porting gawk to a new operating
system.
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| • Derived Files: | Why derived files are kept in the Git repository. |