On Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:23:40 -0700 (PDT), Steven Penny wrote: > On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 01:15:08, "Jannick" wrote: > > the current version 4.1.4 of gawk appears to unpleasantly treat CR for > > CRLF files, i.e. CR is not gracefully swallowed, but is a separate character. > > > > This makes some, if not all, of the scripts we are working with here > > useless, unless the input files are converted to LF which certainly is > > not feasible. IIRC the issue did not show up some versions back. > > > > Is this a bug - or am I missing something here? > > Learn to read: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-08/msg00033.html
Thanks - quickly done. The link reveals that CRLF/LF conversion is now mandatory to work with cygwin's gawk on DOS machines. As far as I can see there is no legacy solution like for, e.g., sed (-b switch) to have an easy solution for the issue, especially when invoking gawk from makefiles (piping). I consider this bad news while admittedly not fully understanding the whole background of the move which is not necessary for now. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
