Gawk cr/lf problem

[Pieter Prinsloo]

Hi.

Hope this is the correct place for this mail.

I have quite a few awk program-files that ran 
without any problems on gawk prior to 3.1.1 -
I think it was 3.0.4.

During the weekend I upgraded my Cygwin installation
and Gawk 3.1.1-2 is now installed.

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.
And using vim doesn't help as it accepts the CR/LF 
combination. Effectively I have to open each file as 
a DOS file and save as a Unix type file - or force it
thru FTP to strip the CR's.
All would be fine - except in the field - *nix type editors
ain't allways available and something like wordpad must 
make do. And so the problem continues.

Am I missing something? Is there an environment variable 
that suddenly needs setting?

Oh and yes - I am running gawk in a cmd shell.
But I get the same problem running in bash.

For the time being I'm reverting to the previous version
of Gawk and the cygwin1.dll.

Tx in advance

Kind regards
PwP

Pieter Prinsloo
pexy Systems

old Chinese saying 'Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up
where we are going...' 

Microsoft apparently thinks that R&D stands for 'Rewrap & Disguise'.
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