gawk system() problem?

[Hoyt, Ben]

> This  works for me
> BEGIN {
>   print system("command.com /c dir")
>   }
> 
> but I'm sure that command.com is in my path.
> I suppose if you're on NT, it might be cmd.exe.
> 
	Interesting. It doesn't for me. :-( I'm running Win95 and
command.com is definitely in my path. The above awk program simply displays
a "0" and nothing else. I guess by "it works for me" you mean displaying the
directory? Hmmm.. oh well. Thanks again.


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