Re: minor documentation suggestion for FS values and "whitespace" in general

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ed Morton <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 08:46:05 -0400
> 
> Thanks Arnold. I assume you meant to say whitespace is ' ' and '\t' and 
> '\n' on UNIX at least given:
> 
>     $ printf 'a b\nc\n' | awk -v RS='#' '{print NR, NF; for (i=1; i<=NF;
>     i++) print i, "<" $i ">"}'
>     1 3
>     1 <a>
>     2 <b>
>     3 <c>
> 
> but is that still true on Windows or is it ' ' and '\t' and '\r\n' there 
> or something else? I don't have a Windows environment to test it in.

If you are thinking the NL vs CRLF issue, then it won't be a problem
on Windows, as NL will be silently converted to CRLF.  A more serious
problem is that \n will not produce a newline on Windows and \t won't
produce a TAB, since the shell there doesn't do such conversions.