X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:36:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Matthew Karas cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin, gawk, and serial ports. In-Reply-To: <20060419172659.26944.qmail@web30803.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20060419172659.26944.qmail@web30803.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Matthew, . I'm redirecting this to the proper list, and setting Reply-To: accordingly -- please make sure your mailer respects it. On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Matthew Karas wrote: > Hello, > > I've been trying to get awk to write to the serial port under cygwin. > > #script > BEGIN{ > > PRINT " hello world " > "/dev/com1"; > } > #end script > > this doesn't work in awk but > > "cat file.txt > /dev/com1" > > works fine. > > Can you help me out? > > Thanks, > Matthew Karas WJFFM. You'll have to be more specific about the nature of your problem. In particular, you should provide all of the information requested in the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at . When you do, please make sure to *attach* the output of "cygcheck -svr", not include it inline. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/