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Port of gawkbug.in to Windows


From: J Naman
Subject: Port of gawkbug.in to Windows
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 01:12:06 -0500

The 'GAWK: Effective AWK Programming: A User's
Guide for GNU Awk', for the 5.2.1, section  B.4.2 Submitting Bug Reports
states, "for the MinGW build of gawk, the gawkbug script won’t
be available. Please send the previously listed information directly in an
email to the bug list.
I would appreciate any feedback, critique, or suggestions on my
attempt to *port
gawkbug.in <http://gawkbug.in> to Windows*. A win .batch script does not
work, so I wrote a gawkbug.awk script. The ported template is:
From: [YOUR email address here]
To: bug-gawk@gnu.org
Subject: [50 character or so descriptive subject here {for reference}]
Date: Sat Dec 10 2022 05:44:08 UTC Sat Dec 10 2022 00:44:08 -0500 EST

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:

Gawk Version: GNU Awk 5.2.1, API 3.2, (GNU MPFR 4.0.2, GNU MP 6.1.2)
Machine: x86(32-bit gawk) under a 64-bit OS
OS: Windows_NT = Win 7 SP1 [Version 6.1.7601]
platform: mingw
Compiler: ?
Compilation CFLAGS: ?
uname output: ?
LC_ALL: C
Attestation: I have read
https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Bugs.html.
           : Yes | No  [ Choose one. If 'No', then why haven't you? ]
gawkbug ver: 5.2.1
Description: [Detailed description of the problem, suggestion, or
complaint.]

Repeat-By: [Describe the sequence of events that causes the problem to
occur.]

Fix: [Description of how to fix the problem.  If you don't know a fix for
the problem, don't include this section.]

#========
After the templated is edited and saved, the main block of the gawkbig
script validates the user report and issues error messages such as:
FATAL ERROR: You have not given your FROM: email address
From: [YOUR email address here]

FATAL ERROR: You have not changed the Subject: from the default.
Please use a more descriptive subject header.
Subject: [50 character or so descriptive subject here {for reference}]

Edit your gawkbug report again? (Y or N default=Yes): [Y,N]?N
Please email your gawkbug.eform.221210.053548.txt file to bug-gawk@gnu.org
Press any key to continue . . .
*** the remaining porting problem is the difficulty of emailing directly
from the gawk script or a Windows batch script. Currently, the user must
load a browser, email program, and load or cut-and-past the file
'gawkbug.eform.yymmdd.hhmmss.txt (as I have done here).
Very soon, I will put the source code online as free software, Copyright
(C) 2022 Free Software Foundation. Thanks, John Naman, aka gawker@703n.com.


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