Re: [bug-gawk] gawk stops reading input at SUB character

[Paavo Tamminen]

Hi All,

And thank you for your quick responses.

Binmode works for me:
gawk.exe 'BEGIN{BINMODE=3};{print $0}' test.txt

I thought the Control-Z would be used to console input (std in) only, but live and learn..

Thanks again,

Paavo

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 9:41 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:18:32 -0600
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> Should binary mode be the default?

No, of course not.  As a native Windows program, Gawk should behave
like all the other native programs which process text.

A ^Z character in the middle of a file on Windows _really_ means it's
a binary file.

(Users who want Gawk on Windows to use binary I/O by default should
use the Cygwin port of Gawk.)