I've taken a look at the differences between -2 and -3; here's the diff:
$ diff -r gawk-3.1.5-2 gawk-3.1.5-3 diff -r gawk-3.1.5-2/posix/gawkmisc.c gawk-3.1.5-3/posix/gawkmisc.c 223a224
#include <stdio.h>
237a239,244
void cygwin_premain2 (int argc, char **argv, struct per_process *myself) { setmode (fileno (stdin), O_TEXT); }
...that's the only difference between the two source trees. Not having looked at cygwin-specific source before, I'm going to guess that cygwin_premain2 is a hook which is called at program execution time, since there is no call to cygwin_premain2 in the source code. I think the problem is the O_TEXT. If I change this to O_BINARY and recompile, everything works swimmingly. The question now is: should the file really be opened as O_TEXT, or as O_BINARY? Can anyone set me straight on this? Regards; David Carter -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/