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authorArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2018-02-09 11:33:36 +0200
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@@ -38714,9 +38714,14 @@ type @samp{make mingw32}.
@cindex operating systems, PC, @command{gawk} on
@cindex PC operating systems, @command{gawk} on
-Under MS-Windows, the Cygwin and MinGW environments support
+Information in this section applies to the MinGW and
+DJGPP ports of @command{gawk}. @xref{Cygwin} for information
+about the Cygwin port.
+
+Under MS-Windows, the MinGW environment supports
both the @samp{|&} operator and TCP/IP networking
(@pxref{TCP/IP Networking}).
+The DJGPP environment does not support @samp{|&}.
@cindex search paths
@cindex search paths, for source files
@@ -38842,6 +38847,15 @@ When compared to GNU/Linux on the same system, the @samp{configure}
step on Cygwin takes considerably longer. However, it does finish,
and then the @samp{make} proceeds as usual.
+Recent versions of Cygwin open all files in binary mode. This means
+that you should use @samp{RS = "\r?\n"} in order to be able to
+handle standard MS-Windows text files with carriage-return plus
+line-feed line endings.
+
+The Cygwin environment supports
+both the @samp{|&} operator and TCP/IP networking
+(@pxref{TCP/IP Networking}).
+
@node MSYS
@appendixsubsubsec Using @command{gawk} In The MSYS Environment