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Article #40330Re: GNUawk help wanted
From: David Harper
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1989 20:05
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1989 20:05
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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.
Dave Harper - Convex Computer Corp. E-mail address:
3000 Waterview Pky. Richardson, TX 75081 harper@convex.COM
(214) 497-4525 (W) (214) 727-4206 (H)
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