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Subject: Re: awk -- Can't win for loosing
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 09:52:10 -0600
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----- Original Message -----=20
From: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
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Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: awk -- Can't win for loosing


> From: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 5:30 PM
>=20
> > Folks,
> >=20
> >   I'm prepared to include the sources and build awk as part
> > of the danged apache build if we can't find a solution to these
> > issues.  I propose we add helpers/awk and drop in the AT&T/Lucient
> > licensed code as-is, build it as part of the makefile.win build
> > before we rewrite files.
> >=20
> >   It is an absolute joke that some windows shells aren't accepting
> > slashes (quoted, mind you) in file names, while it's an equal joke
> > that gnu awk won't accept backslashed names.
> >=20
> >   I have no other good answer.  Ideas?  Back to perl scripts?
>=20
> The damage is done, we've reverted to the working mechanism for
> the one true awk, and now diss the gnu awk.  Questions now for
> gnu awk users...
>=20
> I'm suspecting that awk is ignorning the -f foo flag and solo
> BEGIN block?  Though that's supposed to tell awk that no files
> are expected, I'm guessing gnu awk is broken in this respect.
>=20
> Please download, with the properly quoted arguments, and let
> me know what you see.
>=20
>=20
>=20


LOL :)

I told Apache "developers" this would bite them! =20

For those that wish to do the make files awk "actions" and do this =
"cleanly",
(by learning the Windows OS and the Windows OS tools),
so you can "develop", then go to the following:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/

Then throw awk away and CScript.exe it - available on ALL Windows OSes,
(except for the Apache "developers" computers)!  :)

JLW