From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Gawk problems (text mode read/writes in DOS)
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Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 13:29:34 GMT
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:14:20 -0400 (EDT), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

>Clive Jenkins <clive DOT jenkins AT clara DOT net> wrote:
> 
>> 1. printf("%c",10) outputs two consecutive bytes, values 13, 10. All
>> values other than 10 are output verbatim. This is obviously replacing CR
>> with CR,LF.
>> 2. reading of an input file is terminated if an embedded ^Z (value 26)
>> is encountered. This is a hangover from very early versions of DOS.
>
>This is expected behavior: Gawk uses text-mode I/O, since it is mainly
>a text-processing tool.
>
>[snip]
>
>I'm not sure if it's possible to solve this in a way that doesn't
>break more important features, so it would be nice if you could
>suggest possible solutions for these problems, together with your
>report.

A switch to open files in binary mode?

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