> -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 4:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: awk CR/LF issue
[snap] > >So the 3.0.3 GNU awk works as expected. awk 3.1.1 does not! > >It outputs to POSIX style only, disregarding the mounts. > > Correct. That was the whole point of the release. That made an evil awk IMHO. The reason of mounting something as "--text" is that "text files get \r\n line endings" (says mounts usage). Other means of output stick to that anyway. But I'll shut my mouth for now and just consider your options: > Your options are to 1) stick with the old release, 2) rebuild > gawk yourself from source, 3) submit a patch to make the behavior > selectable via a command-line option. Yepp, I'll try to progress from 1 to 3 :) thanks, harry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
