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@@ -458,3 +458,20 @@ May 27, 1996:
thanks to jeffrey friedl for several of these.
+May 28, 1996:
+ fixed appalling but apparently unimportant bug in parsing octal
+ numbers in reg exprs.
+
+ explicit hex in reg exprs now limited to 2 chars: \xa, \xaa.
+
+Jun 28, 1996:
+ changed field-splitting to conform to posix definition: fields are
+ split using the value of FS at the time of input; it used to be
+ the value when the field or NF was first referred to, a much less
+ predictable definition. thanks to arnold robbins for encouragement
+ to do the right thing.
+
+Jun 29, 1996:
+ fixed awful bug in new field splitting; didn't get all the places
+ where input was done.
+