Gawk cr/lf problem

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

> But - ALL my program-files created with DOS type editors
> and ending in CR/LF now give problems.
> gawk comes back with error 'invalid char' for each ^M.
> I have to manually remove the CR at the end of each line to get it to work.

...

> Am I missing something? 

Yes. dos2unix from the cygutils package. 
It will automatically convert your old files for you. 

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