made the pack completely portable and wrote relevent bat files to go with it

gitportable/usr/share/awk/strtonum.awk

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+# mystrtonum --- convert string to number
+
+#
+# Arnold Robbins, arnold@skeeve.com, Public Domain
+# February, 2004
+# Revised June, 2014
+
+function mystrtonum(str,        ret, n, i, k, c)
+{
+    if (str ~ /^0[0-7]*$/) {
+        # octal
+        n = length(str)
+        ret = 0
+        for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
+            c = substr(str, i, 1)
+            # index() returns 0 if c not in string,
+            # includes c == "0"
+            k = index("1234567", c)
+
+            ret = ret * 8 + k
+        }
+    } else if (str ~ /^0[xX][[:xdigit:]]+$/) {
+        # hexadecimal
+        str = substr(str, 3)    # lop off leading 0x
+        n = length(str)
+        ret = 0
+        for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
+            c = substr(str, i, 1)
+            c = tolower(c)
+            # index() returns 0 if c not in string,
+            # includes c == "0"
+            k = index("123456789abcdef", c)
+
+            ret = ret * 16 + k
+        }
+    } else if (str ~ \
+  /^[-+]?([0-9]+([.][0-9]*([Ee][0-9]+)?)?|([.][0-9]+([Ee][-+]?[0-9]+)?))$/) {
+        # decimal number, possibly floating point
+        ret = str + 0
+    } else
+        ret = "NOT-A-NUMBER"
+
+    return ret
+}
+
+# BEGIN {     # gawk test harness
+#     a[1] = "25"
+#     a[2] = ".31"
+#     a[3] = "0123"
+#     a[4] = "0xdeadBEEF"
+#     a[5] = "123.45"
+#     a[6] = "1.e3"
+#     a[7] = "1.32"
+#     a[8] = "1.32E2"
+#
+#     for (i = 1; i in a; i++)
+#         print a[i], strtonum(a[i]), mystrtonum(a[i])
+# }