awk CR/LF issue

[Harald Kierer]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf-cygwin@cygwin.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 4:29 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> 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

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