X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:40:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com cc: Matthew Karas Subject: Re: Cygwin, gawk, and serial ports. In-Reply-To: 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 On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: > 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 > [snip] > > WJFFM. You'll have to be more specific about the nature of your problem. I take that back. It works for me if I use lowercase "print", which is an awk command. The uppercase "PRINT" is interpreted as an (empty) awk variable, and awk interprets a constant expression in statement context just like C does -- i.e., it ignores it. This is not Cygwin-specific; you'll get the same results on Linux. 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/