Re: Installed, but can't get it to run

[Eric Blake]

> Hi,
> I am running XP Home with all of the latest patches. I downloaded 
> gawk-3.1.3-2.exe. I ran it to install gawk. In C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin 
> I 
> have gawk.exe, igawk, libintl3.dll, pwcat.exe, grcat.exe, libiconv2.dll, 
> pgawk.exe. I read the installation instructions and set TMP, TMPDIR, and 
> HOME. 
> When I try running gawk.exe and pgawk.exe from the Run... box, I see a 
> command 
> box with a black background flash briefly and the disappear.
> What am I missing?
> Thanks,
> Don

gawk is not a shell, so invoking it directly from Windows with no
arguments will simply print the help message, then exit, and the
windows console exits when the invoked program quits (explaining
the flash of the black background).  gawk is only useful when you
are already inside of a shell (this being the gnu-utils list, I would
recommend bash, although tcsh, zsh, or even windows cmd.com
are also valid shells).  This sort of question might be better directed
to the GnuWin32 project, or to the mingw32 or cygwin list, as it
is not a problem with gawk, but with your usage of gawk under
a Windows environment.

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Eric Blake