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From: brand@cad.Berkeley.EDU (Graham Brand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Passing parameters from a .BAT file to a program - HELP!
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Date: 8 Oct 90 22:59:09 GMT
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I am having a problem passing a filename parameter from a .BAT
file to the gawk program which it calls. The batch file looks
something like:

	set where = c:\awkprog\
	gawk -f %where%prog.awk "%1"

and is invoked as: batchfil  datafile.
The set command works since the correct gawk program file is
invoked. However, gawk's FILENAME variable is set to "-" (stdin)
indicating that the "%1" parameter is being interpolated incorrectly 
as stdin instead of datafile. 

Does anyone know what is going on here? I am running Gawk V2.11
under DOS 3.3.

Thanks in advance,
-Graham