* Daniel Richard G. wrote on Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:37:30PM CET:
> Here is the real problem---not gawk(1), but indeed tr(1):
> 
> % ( echo foo ; echo bar ) | tr '\015\012' ' '
> foo
> bar
> % ( echo foo ; echo bar ) | tr '\015\012' '  '  <---- note the two-space 
> string
> foo bar %
> 
> The expected "SET2 is extended to length of SET1 by repeating its last 
> character as necessary" thing is not happening!

Posix leaves this unspecified, in order to allow for the historical
System V semantics.

Cheers,
Ralf


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