Re: doesn't find the exe file when current dir name long (V 3.0.3 (Windows))

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:42:58 +0330
> From: "Mehrdad Pakzad" <address@hidden>
> Cc: 
> 
> My version of gawk: GNU Awk 3.0.3 (Windows)
> My version of Windows: Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
>                       (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
> 
> I have the bin folder of gawk in the environmental variable 'path', and
> it works everywhere fine, but,
> 
> not in this folder:
> D:\mine\Lorestan\10\disp\0.012-0.095\shiftinclu\multiSour\1Km\aaaaaa\a>gawk
> The system cannot execute the specified program.
> 
> not in this folder:
> D:\mine\Lorestan\10\disp\0.012-0.095\shiftinclu\multiSour\1Km\aaaaaaa >gawk
> The system cannot execute the specified program.
> 
> but it runs in this folder:
> D:\mine\Lorestan\10\disp\0.012-0.095\shiftinclu\multiSour\1Km\aaaaaa\
> 
> Only one letter more and it doesn't find the exe file.

V3.0.3 is a very old version, and I suspect it was compiled by some
compiler that doesn't support modern Windows APIs.  Can you try a
newer version of Gawk?  The latest one released is v3.1.5.

Thanks.