Hello: awk is removing the \r below:
~ $ date;uname -sr Thu Aug 21 18:26:08 CDT 2008 CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) ~ $ printf "HI\r\n"| awk -v BINMODE=rw '{print}'|/bin/od -Ad -c -toC 0000000 H I \n 110 111 012 0000003 ~ $ cygcheck -f /bin/gawk gawk-3.1.6-1 -- thanks, Tom -- 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/