Erroneous line endings (cat,gawk,text mount)

[Peter S Tillier]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:24:26AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> FWIW, I've reproduced this on Win2k with CYGWIN=nobinmode on a text
>> mount:
>
> Yes, gawk is linked against automode.o and always reads in textmode
> and writes in binmode.
>
> Corinna

Thanks for this Corinna.  Does it mean that the gawk BINMODE variable
is effectively ignored?


Peter S Tillier
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