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linux gawk 2.15pl6 broken ? (fwd)




Ok, the following message was not a casual announcement. TIA means Thank 
You In Advance. Can you please type the exmaple given below into your 
command lines and tell me ? Please ? TIA.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:19:26 +0000 (GMT)
From: Peter <plp@actcom.co.il>
To: linux-il@linux.org.il
Subject: linux gawk 2.15pl6 broken ?


Hi,

when I do 'echo "a b c" | gawk 'BEGIN { OFS="\t"; } /^/ { print; }'

I get "a b c" and no TABs. What am I (is gawk) doing wrong. What is the 
latest version / patch level.

TIA

Peter Lorand Peres
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