gawk system() problem?

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 09:55 PM 1/14/2001, J H Buffington wrote:
>At 03:48 PM 1/15/01 +1300, Hoyt, Ben wrote:
>
>> > 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.
>
>
>Yes, I see the directory followed by 0.
>
>See what happens when you type "which command.com"
>at the bash prompt.
>
>Try substituting that output for "command.com" in the system call.
>
>BTW, I'm stuck in the "stone age" at Cygwin 1.0 (CD version).
>Later versions may work differently.



In this area, the "stone age" and the current release coincide.  There is 
no difference in functionality.



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