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From: lixj@acf4.NYU.EDU (Xiaojian Li)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: RE: GNUawk help wanted(summary)
Message-ID: <20015@acf4.NYU.EDU>
Date: 29 Dec 89 20:29:00 GMT
Organization: New York University
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Thanks to Fred Brundick, Stephen Smith, James, Eric M. Boehm, Min-Woong
Sohn, Mintin R. Wittmann and Marty Cohen, I got GNUawk worked on my PC.
The following is the summary:

the problem is with MSDOS, it doesn't know the words within the single
quota is one argument to gawk. One has to use either double quota or
a command file,

gawk "BEGIN {print \"OK\"}" ...
gawk -f program ...

there is no more problem when I try this on Zenith286. Another tricky
thing is that I have to add the current working directory into the 
environment variable APPEND,

append <current dir>...

when working on my AT clone, then gawk works no less than impressive. 


--XJL