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On 11/23/2015 10:11 AM, Lester Anderson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The img2grd program is a Windows code. The script is using the GMT

Which is the cause of any PTY issue.

> software that is freely available, and accessed via Cygwin; can also
> work via standard windows batch files to a more restricted degree.
> 
> The Windows path definition worked fine, thanks for that
> 
> The issue seems to be getting the variables calculated via awk into
> the region definition (R). The awk version under Cygwin is Gawk, and
> it appears to run without issue, although I cannot get the values out
> to check the calculation. The echo command does not give any output.
> Awk has to be used as bash does not work with floating point numbers
> as far as I can see.
> 

When in a shell that has an embedded echo such as bash you're actually
using the shell internals.  What if you use /bin/echo instead?  Or even
/bin/cat.  This may or may not alleviate any PTY issue.

> I am slowly working my way through a published script to get it running.
> 

Please stop top posting.  It is most annoying.

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