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Re: gawk: unexpected behavior, but not a bug


From: Thomas Schwinge
Subject: Re: gawk: unexpected behavior, but not a bug
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:14:57 +0200
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Hello!

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 12:19:34PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> You mean, that DOS-style CRLF end-of-line is not recognized by Gawk on
> Posix systems?  If so, that's not a bug, it's a usage error.

Correct, it was my fault (as I had already indicated in the `Subject:'
line).  I had been visiting the `ThomasSchwinge.txt' file using `less',
which didn't display the CR characters.

> But if
> this was on DOS or on Windows, then this is some kind of bug, so
> please post the details in that case.

It's on a GNU/Linux system.

As gawk is doing the right thing, there is nothing you'd have to fix with
respect to that.  My email essentially was a
got-unexpexted-output-thought-I'd-tell-you-about-it one.  For posterity.
Or whatever.


Regards,
 Thomas

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