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Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 07:14:26AM -0700, Barry Buchbinder wrote:
> > C:\> gawk '{print "x" $0 "y"}' < autoexec.bat
> >gave no "x" but "y" was at the *beginning* of the line!
>
> Calm down.
>
> >C:\> gawk '{print $0 "yz" }' < autoexec.bat
> >showed that what was happening was that the "yz" was *overwriting*
the
> >beginning of the line.
>
> So, to summarize, this is a standard CRLF problem. If you look at the
> output in od or less you can see what is going on.
>
> I don't know why this version of gawk is having CRLF problems. I'll
> check to see if this is a cygwin problem or a gawk problem but I
suspect
> it is a gawk problem.
>
> cgf
Chris,
This bug was fixed in release gawk-3.1.1-3
Peter S Tillier peter_tillier@yahoo.co.uk
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