convert: stop gawk v5 warning

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convert: stop gawk v5 warning #67

Closed pwdraper closed 4 years ago

pwdraper commented 4 years ago

convert: stop warning about protected non-special character in gawk version 5 (fedora 31). Reported by John Lucey.

Fixed #66.

Please accept when happy, branch can be removed.

MalcolmCurrie commented 4 years ago

That's been in there for nearly 24 years! It's from the early days of Starlink on UNIX, where I escaped the ! as if it were a shell metacharacter. Please pass on thanks to JRL.

pwdraper commented 4 years ago

Thanks, I'll be sure to mention this at coffee this afternoon!