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awk misreading txt file

Good morning,

I am having a problem that I have never had before using awk. I have a txt file that obviously has clear columns and records. When I open the file in textedit, or any other program, it looks as it should, but when I check it in awk by printing the whole thing, it considers everything to be on one line. The file was generated on a mac using OS 9, and I am trying to do the scripting work on a system using OS X, Leopard. I would like to add, however, that I have done this EXACT analysis before and there were no problems reading the text file -- I did a preliminary analysis of the data mid-experiment. Now, the experiment is over, and the files are appended with all the more recent trials, so I recollected them using a flash drive and moved them to my main work station for analysis.

I have tried running DOS to Linux on the files, I have copied the text into new files and saved them, even copied into word, saved as .doc, and then exported to txt. I am baffled, and starting to think it is something awry in my awk build. Does anyone have insight into this issue?

PS, if I convert the txt files to rtf files, and then read them with awk, they look ok, except at the end of each line there is a " \ ". I thought I would just use awk to print everything except for the backslash into a new file, but then nothing can read that new file properly EXCEPT awk. I am pretty irritated. Thank you!

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igawk

IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME

       igawk - gawk with include files

SYNOPSIS

       igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
       igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...

DESCRIPTION

       Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).

       AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like

	      @include getopt.awk

       in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.

OPTIONS

       See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.

EXAMPLES

       cat << EOF > test.awk
       @include getopt.awk

       BEGIN {
	    while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
		 ...
       }
       EOF

       igawk -f test.awk

SEE ALSO

       gawk(1)

       Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.

AUTHOR

       Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).

Free Software Foundation					    Nov 3 1999								  IGAWK(1)

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