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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is
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Date: 2 Jan 2025 19:26:31 GMT
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On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 22:12:24 -0500, Paul wrote:

> I still use at least one gnuwin32 regularly. That's gawk.exe .
> I have other things I can run, like bash shell. The difference between
> gnuwin32 gawk.exe and bash shell gawk, is the line endings.
> Gnuwin32 uses native Windows line termination, while bash shell uses
> Linux line termination, and a tiny mod must be made to your script, if
> moving it.

Yeah, that misery...  Our legacy apps started life on AIX and were ported 
to Windows. <CR><LF> caused a number of bugs.