Re: gawk: append doesn't datestamp (PC)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:01:40 +0200
> From: Stepan Kasal <address@hidden>
> 
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 10:23:53PM +0100, Chris Willis wrote:
> > I expect it is some feature of Mr Gates', but it suprises me that ...
> 
> > C:\chris\progs\gawkerr>gawk --version | gawk NR==1
> > GNU Awk 3.0.3
> 
> this is quite old version of gawk.  Current version is 3.1.2.

I don't think the version matters; I can reproduce this with Gawk
3.1.1 (the DJGPP port).

> In case you really wanted to know the answer, you should find out
> the project which produced the binary you use (gnuwin32, djgpp,
> cygwin, or whatever) and contact the project.

I expect the issue to show in all of them, but that's a guess.

I have no idea why this happens (I don't know of anything specific to
appending in the Windows filesystem), but unfortunately I don't have
time to dig into this.