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2023-07-10  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* gnucobol.texi: updated "Build target" (change of -P / -E),
	  updated "Debug switches" (changed -g and new memory-check)

2023-05-24  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* gnucobol.texi: document warning and optimization options
	  related to unreachable code; add note on core dumps

2023-01-31  Fabrice Le Fessant <fabrice.le_fessant@ocamlpro.com>

	* gnucobol.texi: include format auto-detection

2023-01-25  David Declerck <david.declerck@ocamlpro.com>

	* gnucobol.texi: document usage of translation tables via
	  -febcdic-table at compile time and as API via cob_load_collation

2022-11-15  Nicolas Berthier <nicolas.berthier@ocamlpro.com>

	* gnucobol.texi: X/Open free-form format allows lines of up to 255
	  bytes, and may not be subject to Area A enforcement;
	  substitute @samp for @code when relevant

2022-09-23  Nicolas Berthier <nicolas.berthier@ocamlpro.com>

	* gnucobol.texi: mention Area A enforcement

2022-07-29  Nicolas Berthier <nicolas.berthier@ocamlpro.com>

	* gnucobol.texi: document newly supported source formats

2022-06-28  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* gnucobol.texi: minor additions

2022-05-30  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* Makefile.am: set LANG=C for calling cobcinfo as we currently have
	  only an English manual and no setup for multi-language includes

2021-01-31  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* gnucobol.texi: extended chapters C interface and Debug Options

2021-10-08  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* cobcinfo.sh, gnucobol.texi, Makefile.am: added generation and use
	  of cbexceptions.tex (needs to be beautified later)
	* Makefile.am: removed hacky overwrite of TEXI2DVI, because the
	  additional includes seem not to be necessary in any case

2020-10-13  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* gnucobol.texi: remove node structuring that is identical to default

2020-09-28  James K. Lowden  <jklowden@symas.com>

	* cbrunt.tex.gen: adjust for changed runtime.cfg

2020-09-23  James K. Lowden  <jklowden@symas.com>

	* cbhelp.tex.gen: formatting improvements

2019-09-22  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* Makefile.am: reordered targets, pass $AWK to cobcinfo.sh,
	  added awk depenencies
	* cobcinfo.sh: optionally use awk binary specified by $AWK,
	  cleanup

2020-09-22  James K. Lowden  <jklowden@symas.com>

	* cbintr.awk.gen, cbrunt.tex.gen, cbhelp.tex.gen: new scripts
	* cobcinfo.sh (_create_file): generate cbintr.tex, cbrunt.tex using awk
	* Makefile.am (dist_noinst_SCRIPTS): added new scripts

2020-09-04  James K. Lowden  <jklowden@symas.com>

	* Makefile.am: generate documentation from build-tree versions
	* gnucobol.texi: cleanup formatting problems

2020-06-15  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* gnucobol.texi: update for warning options -Wextra/-W, -Wadditional
	  and integrated some parts of the GCC manual concerning warning related
	  options that are in GnuCOBOL for quite some time
	* gnucobol.texi: update concerning the -std and friends

2019-08-15  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* cobcinfo.sh (_create_file): cut down creation-time of tex-includes
	  by 98% by using read to split into separate parts
	* cobcinfo.sh: optionally use sed binary specified by $SED
	* Makefile.am: pass $SED to cobcinfo.sh
	* cobcinfo.sh: added TAIL_START/TAIL_LAST to allow overriding tail
	  invocation for non-posix systems

2019-06-06  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* Makefile.am: adjusted dependencies for latest changes

2019-05-22  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* cobcinfo.sh: completely adjusted the generation of the appendices
	  (tex-includes) to not copy the output of cobc/cobcrun verbatim
	  but to create readable tables with texinfo commands instead
	* gnucobol.texi: added intro to the appendices, heavy adjustments
	  to use of texinfo commands
	* gnucobol.texi: disabled index generation as it has not enough entries
	  to be useful
	* Makefile.am (touch, touch-tex): targets added

2019-04-28  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* cobcinfo.sh: improved output for runtime configuration

2019-02-18  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* Makefile.am: cleanup distribution rules

2018-08-07  Brian Tiffin <btiffin@gnu.org>

	* gnucobol.texi: CONTENTS-OF rename to CONTENT-OF

2018-06-29  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* cobcinfo.sh: check that executables used actually do work
	  before using their output as content for the manual

2018-06-21  Brian Tiffin <btiffin@gnu.org>

	* gnucobol.texi: Added docs for CONTENT-LENGTH and CONTENTS-OF
	  intrinsic function extensions

2018-06-04  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* cobcinfo.sh: support VPATH builds with changed sources by stripping
	  possible path from parameters

2018-04-10  Luke Smith <cobcoder@users.sourceforge.net>

	* gnucobol.texi:
	   - replace Alt-Home and Alt-End with toggle functions
	   - doc examples for SELECT ASSIGN
	   - doc more options to extended ACCEPT

2018-03-22  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* gnucobol.texi: removed all node pointers but the main level as
	  makeinfo handles these correctly,
	  added a menu group for appendices (not in pdf/html)
	* gnucobol.texi: added missing subsection Figurative Constants below
	  section Extended DISPLAY statement

2018-02-16  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* Makefile.am: remove generated includes in target maintainer-clean

2017-10-31  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* cobcinfo.sh: use `` instead of $() - see Bug #437

2017-10-22  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* cobcinfo.sh: use exported COBC/COBCRUN instead of relying on
	  exported PATH; changed to keep a list of tex-includes

2017-08-15  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* gnucobol.texi: explained use of cob_tidy / cob_stop_run

2017-07-02  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* gnucobol.texi: added -std=rm and all strict variants,
	  added explanations for -std

2017-04-28  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* Makefile.am: passed GREP from configure to cobcinfo.sh
	* cobcinfo.sh: use GREP from configure, check for working grep -A

2017-02-24  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* texinfo.tex: moved to ../build_aux
	* Makefile.am, cobcinfo.sh: changes to cater for move of texinfo.tex
	* general: always regenerate tex include files when building gnucobol.texi

2016-12-03  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* gnucobol.texi: fixed texinfo warnings

2016-10-22  Dave Pitts <dpitts@cozx.com>

	* gnucobol.texi: added --no-symbols option

2016-10-17  Dave Pitts <dpitts@cozx.com>

	* gnucobol.texi: added a COPY to listing example

2016-10-16  Dave Pitts <dpitts@cozx.com>

	* gnucobol.texi: added listing example

2016-10-16  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* gnucobol.texi: replaced cb_conf by samples of compiler configuration
	  flags and added minimal entry for listing options

2016-10-11  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* gnucobol.texi: Added entries for all GC-specific system libraries

2016-08-13  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* cobcinfo.sh: used new option -q to remove most `sed` calls

2016-08-10  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* Makefile.am: added all sources to gnucobol_TEXINFOS and removed them
	  from EXTRA_DIST

2016-06-05  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* cobcinfo.sh, Makefile.am: fix VPATH builds by sourcing atconfig/atlocal
	  in the Makefile (where the VPATH is available) instead of cobcinfo.sh

2016-04-24  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* cobcinfo.sh: portability change (using expr instead of declare)

2016-03-04  Edward Hart <edward.dan.hart@gmail.com>

	* gnucobol.texi: Copyediting: improved capitalisation of headings,
	  changed "Hello World!" to "Hello, world!", formatted COBOL/C/compiler
	  options as code, added missing full stops in bullet point lists and
	  improved some sentences.

2016-02-12  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* cobcinfo.sh: remove the built-prefix from cobc/cobcrun
	  when capturing --help

2015-12-20  Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>

	* gnucobol.texi: Update for GnuCOBOL 2.0
	* texinfo.tex: updated to version from texinfo 5.2
	  (more current versions throw errors in gnucobol.texi)
	* new appendix cbrunt.tex from config/runtime.cfg, translating it to
	  texinfo format
	* new appendix cbchelp.tex from `cobcrun --help`
	* removed appendix cbinfo.tex from `cobcrun --info` as this is highly
	  system specific
	* cobcinfo.sh: Make sure the version of cobc is used that was built from
	  this package, cater for changed appendices, overwrite tex-files only if
	  they are changed, new (optional) parameters for creating tex-files by
	  group or single ones and for fixing the timestamps
	* Makefile.am: cater for changed appendices, make all appendices dependent
	  on cobcinfo.sh and source files of cobc to make sure these are always
	  up-to-date

2015-12-15  Brian Tiffin <btiffin@gnu.org>

	* gnucobol.texi: Add -j and "-" stdin filename explanation.

2015-06-22  Luke Smith <cobcoder@users.sourceforge.net>

	* gnucobol.texi: Add Extended ACCEPT special keys section.

2015-06-08  Luke Smith <cobcoder@users.sourceforge.net>

	* gnucobol.texi: added Index at end
	* gnucobol.texi: new section "Extensions" to document FR #37
	  WITH SIZE for ACCEPT/DISPLAY field

2014-14-04  Philipp Bhme <phi.boehme@googlemail.com>

	* gnucobol.texi: Added documentation for CBL_OC_GETOPT

2010-06-28  Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de>

	* MARK - Version 2.0
	* Move to GPL/LGPL 3
	* open-cobol.texi: Update for 2.0

2009-02-01  Brian Tiffin <btiffin@canada.com>

	* open-cobol.texi: Update for 1.1

2005-05-21  Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de>

	* open-cobol.texi: Revise

2005-05-13  Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de>

	* open-cobol.texi: Revise

2005-03-03  Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de>

	* open-cobol.texi: update for -Os

2002-06-11  Keisuke Nishida  <knishida@netlab.jp>

	* open-cobol.texi: Revise for 0.9.6.

2002-06-03  Keisuke Nishida  <knishida@netlab.jp>

	* open-cobol.texi (Customize): Add COB_LDADD, COB_CONFIG_FILE.


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