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?
ht
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next prev parent 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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