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

[John Cowan]

DON PETERSEN scripsit:
> 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?

The fact that gawk is a command-line application, not a GUI one.
You need to read up on the Awk programming language to learn how to use
it, then start your own command window and run gawk from there.

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