Gawk cr/lf problem

["Pieter Prinsloo" <pietp dot pexy at megawan dot net>]

Hi.

 

Hope this is the correct place for this mail.

 

I have quite a few awk program-files that ran

without any problems on gawk prior to 3.1.1 -
I think it was 3.0.4.

 

During the weekend I upgraded my Cygwin installation

and Gawk 3.1.1-2 is now installed.

 

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.

And using vim doesn't help as it accepts the CR/LF

combination. Effectively I have to open each file as

a DOS file and save as a Unix type file - or force it

thru FTP to strip the CR's.

All would be fine - except in the field - *nix type editors

ain't allways available and something like wordpad must

make do. And so the problem continues.

 

Am I missing something? Is there an environment variable

that suddenly needs setting?

 

Oh and yes - I am running gawk in a cmd shell.

But I get the same problem running in bash.

 

For the time being I'm reverting to the previous version

of Gawk and the cygwin1.dll.

 

Tx in advance

 

Kind regards

PwP

 

Pieter Prinsloo
pexy Systems

old Chinese saying 'Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are going...'

Microsoft apparently thinks that R&D stands for 'Rewrap & Disguise'.

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