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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:41:53 +0200
From: Manuel Collado <m DOT collado AT aaron DOT ls DOT fi DOT upm DOT es>
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Subject: Weird interference igawk / igawk.bat
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The gawk DJGPP distribution contains both igawk and igawk.bat scripts. 
I've found a nasty interference between them in my XP (Spanish) machine:

=== using CMD.EXE ===============
e:\mcollado>ver

Microsoft Windows XP [Versión 5.1.2600]

e:\mcollado>igawk                  <<== FAULT
Comando o nombre de archivo erróneo

e:\mcollado>sh igawk               <<== OK
igawk: no program!

e:\mcollado>

=== using bash ===============
bash-2.04$ igawk                  <<== FAULT
Comando o nombre de archivo erróneo

E:\MCOLLADO>

bash-2.04$ sh igawk               <<== OK
igawk: no program!
bash-2.04$

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The problem seems to be that some secondary shell gives preference to 
'igawk.bat' over 'igawk' when called simply as 'igawk'. Any one of the 
following actions, alone, solves the problem:

1. Renaming igawk.bat (say, to 2igawk.bat)

2. Disabling the shebang line '#! /bin/sh' in 'igawk'

3. Calling 'igawk.' instead of 'igawk' in 'igawk.bat'

**NOTE: Changing COMSPEC or SHELL environments variables to either 
'bash' or 'sh' doesn't help:

bash-2.04$ COMSPEC=e:/gnu/djgpp/bin/sh.exe
bash-2.04$ igawk
/c: /c: No such file or directory (ENOENT)     <<== ????
bash-2.04$

Is that a bug in the DJGPP port of bash? Or in the 'system' library 
function? (if it is used by bash/sh to process the shebang line). Or 
should I configure my XP machine differently?

TIA,
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