Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:14:20 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT delorie DOT com>
To: Clive Jenkins <clive DOT jenkins AT clara DOT net>
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	27 Apr 2000 12:03:33 +0100)
Subject: Re: Gawk problems (text mode read/writes in DOS)
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> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:03:33 +0100
> From: Clive Jenkins <clive DOT jenkins AT clara DOT net>
> 
> 1. printf("%c",10) outputs two consecutive bytes, values 13, 10. All
> values other than 10 are output verbatim. This is obviously replacing CR
> with CR,LF.
> 2. reading of an input file is terminated if an embedded ^Z (value 26)
> is encountered. This is a hangover from very early versions of DOS.

This is expected behavior: Gawk uses text-mode I/O, since it is mainly
a text-processing tool.

> Can anyone please tell me if I have missed something, otherwise I will
> report these as bugs.

You haven't miss anything.  Please report this, if you feel this is a
bug.

I'm not sure if it's possible to solve this in a way that doesn't
break more important features, so it would be nice if you could
suggest possible solutions for these problems, together with your
report.