From:	Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: gawk 3.1.1 DJGPP v2.04 on Windows 2000 Pro problem using system() function and LFNs
Date:	Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:26:43 CST
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> My suspicion was that the system() command in gawk was
> invoking command.com rather than cmd.exe, although I
> assume that the value of COMSPEC would be checked by
> the gawk code.

Try:
 SET SHELL=%comspec%

before running.  Don't have time to try it, but I'm curious if it
makes a difference.

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