Re: foo*

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings.  Re this:

> To: address@hidden
> Subject: foo*
> From: Dan Jacobson <............>
> Date: 01 Jun 2001 05:23:02 +0800
>
> the gawk info page says this twice:
>
>           printf "%-4s", "foo"
>
>      prints `foo*'.
>
> [remove asterisk]

The info file, somewhat above the example, mentions that * is used to represent
a space in the output (it calls it the bullet symbol).  Thus, the * is there
on purpose.

> Plus the only the man page but not the info page mentions your bug address.

Fixed in the upcoming 3.1.0 release.

Thanks,

Arnold Robbins