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Re: A potential bug (gawk .bat files)
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Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: A potential bug (gawk .bat files) |
Date: |
15 Mar 2004 12:02:36 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
Shahar Liani <address@hidden> writes:
> Im unsuccessfully trying to deal with an error message that I get
> when trying to start 2 gawk processes simultaneously. The message
> is "Batch file cannot be found" and it is received when issuing
> "gawk -f file1.awk" and "gawk -f file2.awk" at the same time. I
> guess it got something to do with the pip#.bat files that gawk uses
> From my temp directory.
> I have 3 question:
> 1. Is multi-processing supported in my gawk version or any other version?
It's supported and works on GNU and Unix platforms, but apparently
there's a problem on some Microsoft Windows platforms.
> 2. Can you tell me more about the pip#.bat files roll?
I think they're used by the PC version of the system("....") call.
> 3. Is there any way for me to set a directory (other then "Temp")
> for those bat files to be created?
I'm no expert on your platform, but I'd try setting the TMP and/or
TEMP and/or TMPDIR environment variables.
- A potential bug, Shahar Liani, 2004/03/11
- Re: A potential bug (gawk .bat files),
Paul Eggert <=