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RE: gawk system() problem?
- To: 'J H Buffington' <jbuff at pacific dot net>, "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: gawk system() problem?
- From: "Hoyt, Ben" <Ben dot Hoyt at marconi-online dot com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:48:18 +1300
> 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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