Problem with output from gawk software in recent Cygwin installation

[Michel LaBarre]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cygwin [mailto:cygwin-bounces@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Eliot Moss
> Sent: July 27, 2020 12:52 PM
> To: Bryan VanSchouwen; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Problem with output from gawk software in recent Cygwin
> installation
> 
> On 7/27/2020 11:47 AM, Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I just tried executing an awk script using the most recent version of
gawk,
> > but the output did not turn out the way that it was supposed to.
> >
> > This script uses the following command to print the output data to the
> > output file:
> > print(cai[i], rpi[i], i) >
> > "Fit_Height_correln_plot_-_cPuMP_vs_2NH2-cPuMP.dat"
> >
> > and previously, this command always printed the values of the three
> > variables on a single line, separated by spaces; however, now the gawk
> > software is automatically adding hard-returns between the values,
resulting
> > in the three values being printed on separate lines within the data
file.
> >
> > What is going on here, and how do I permanently make it stop??
> 
> Here's a wondering: Could it have to do with line endings?  If Windows
> CRLF is getting in there, then the variables might get a CR in them,
> which might do weird things.  This assumes those are string variables,
> not numeric.
[Michel LaBarre] Better yet, how about an example using manifest constants
in a one line sample to eliminate impact of arrays or changes in input data
as in: 
   gawk 'BEGIN {print(1,2,3)}'
or
  gawk 'BEGIN {print(1,2,3) > "xxx.txt"}'
> 
> Best - EM
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