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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index 9b4d392e..d99e33bb 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -39745,9 +39745,14 @@ 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 @@ -39873,6 +39878,15 @@ 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 |