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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
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