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Appendix A Installation

gawk 5.2 featuring persistent memory is expected to be released in September 2022; look for it at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/. If 5.2 is not released yet, the master git branch is available at http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/snapshot/gawk-master.tar.gz. Unpack the tarball, run ./bootstrap.sh, ./configure, make, and make check, then try some of the examples presented earlier. In the normal course of events, 5.2 and later gawk releases featuring pm-gawk will appear in the software package management systems of major GNU/Linux distros. Eventually pm-gawk will be available in the default gawk on such systems.