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From: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
To: Bryan VanSchouwen <vanschbm2@gmail.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problem with output from gawk software in recent Cygwin installation
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:38:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5b7duokj5n.fsf@ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC7Qdh1bPAejJZkV6GY96kcAVKNFDvGcTBpbSfXY6jC-aMGsiQ@mail.gmail.com> (Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin's message of "Mon\, 27 Jul 2020 11\:47\:20 -0400")

Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin writes:

> I just tried executing an awk script using the most recent version of gawk,
> but the output did not turn out the way that it was supposed to.

...

> and previously, this command always printed the values of the three
> variables on a single line, separated by spaces; however, now the gawk
> software is automatically adding hard-returns between the values

The script hasn't changed, but before we know it's gawk that's changed,
we need to check that the _input_ hasn't changed.  Can you show us a
sample?

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-27 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-27 15:47 Bryan VanSchouwen
2020-07-27 16:38 ` Henry S. Thompson [this message]
2020-07-27 16:51 ` Eliot Moss
2020-07-27 17:50   ` Michel LaBarre
2020-07-27 20:17     ` Brian Inglis
     [not found]       ` <CAC7Qdh3AEkbX849S+VyDgSm0_WYRaP5d0zT2QOvmWpd3t3PMkQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-07-28  4:05         ` Brian Inglis
2020-07-28 15:32           ` Bryan VanSchouwen
2020-07-28 17:08             ` Brian Inglis

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