Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:11:05 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Harald Kierer cc: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: RE: awk CR/LF issue In-Reply-To: <8C6D4989662C304087C58904BAB721A54B73B9@Hermes.astrum.de> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Harald Kierer wrote: > > -----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 FYI, for a quick workaround (if you stick to 1 for now), use the feline. ;-) ("| cat"). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/