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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:37:12 +0100
From: Manuel Collado <m DOT collado AT aaron DOT ls DOT fi DOT upm DOT es>
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Subject: Re: gawk 3.1.1 DJGPP v2.04 on Windows 2000 Pro problem using system()
 function and LFNs
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Peter S Tillier wrote:
> "Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> wrote in message
> news:3e37507d DOT sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu...
> ...
> A further experiment, prompted by a posting in
> comp.lang.awk (where this all started out) by Andrew
> Graham gives this odd looking result:
> 
> c:\>ver
> 
> Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
> 
> c:\>echo %COMSPEC%
> C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
> 
> c:\>gawk "BEGIN{print ENVIRON[\"COMSPEC\"]}"
> C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\COMMAND.COM
> 
> c:\>
> 
> i.e., despite ver and echo %COMSPEC% saying that
> we're using cmd.exe, DJGPP gawk's ENVIRON array
> thinks that we're using COMMAND.COM

Similar result in WinNT

F:\MCOLLADO>ver

Windows NT Versión 4.0

F:\MCOLLADO>echo %COMSPEC%
C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe

F:\MCOLLADO>gawk "BEGIN{print ENVIRON[\"COMSPEC\"]}"
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\COMMAND.COM

F:\MCOLLADO>gawk --version
GNU Awk 3.1.1
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991-2002 Free Software Foundation.
...


Adding the following line to DJGPP.ENV:

[gawk]
...
COMSPEC=C:/WINNT/system32/cmd.exe

gives the expected result

F:\MCOLLADO>gawk "BEGIN{print ENVIRON[\"COMSPEC\"]}"
C:/WINNT/system32/cmd.exe


Hope it helps,
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