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Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 12:41:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Gawk cr/lf problem
To: pietp DOT pexy AT megawan DOT net, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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> 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.

...

> Am I missing something? 

Yes. dos2unix from the cygutils package. 
It will automatically convert your old files for you. 

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