Re: awk bug in cygwin 1.5.5 under windows xp

2003-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:19:10AM +0200, Karsten Fischer wrote: > > awk fails when called from the cmd or cmdproxy shell. The shell does not > > interpret correctly the link to gawk. Apparently this observation was > > That's a problem of the shell, n

Re: awk bug in cygwin 1.5.5 under windows xp

2003-10-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:19:10AM +0200, Karsten Fischer wrote: > awk fails when called from the cmd or cmdproxy shell. The shell does not > interpret correctly the link to gawk. Apparently this observation was That's a problem of the shell, not of gawk. The installation procedure of gawk on Cyg

awk bug in cygwin 1.5.5 under windows xp

2003-10-01 Thread Karsten Fischer
awk fails when called from the cmd or cmdproxy shell. The shell does not interpret correctly the link to gawk. Apparently this observation was reported several times in the internet. Changing all "awk" to "gawk" in my scripts works fine, but a more elegant solution would be desirable. Karsten Fis