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From: harper@rigel.uucp (David Harper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: GNUawk help wanted
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Date: 25 Dec 89 20:05:08 GMT
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In article <20012@acf4.NYU.EDU> lixj@acf4.NYU.EDU (Xiaojian Li) writes:
>Hi, 
>
>I've downloaded GNUAWK210 for MSDOS from simtel, but have being unable
>to run it on my AT compatible, the error message looks like this:
>
>\C> gawk 'BEGIN {print "OK"}' filename
>  ...can not open '(null)' to read, no such file or directory...
>
>any explaination for this trouble?

There are several variations of AWK on simtel - you might try downloading one
of the others and see if you get the same results.  Also, you might try putting
the awk script in a separate file and invoking it with the '-f' option and see
what that does.  


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