Re: "|&" process

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Paranji, Sanjay wrote:

> I am attempting to use "gawk" to communicate between a PC and a Unix host.
> As a test I wrote the following prog which starts a service to listen for a
> {filename} argument. While I could launch the service on a UNIX box with
> gawk 3.1, I could NOT launch this on the PC with gawk 3.1. I installed gawk
> on the PC myself by getting "djgpp" binaries, the PC is loaded with WinNT
> 4.0 OS. The prog fails with the msg
> 
> fatal: '|&' not supported

Like it says" the DJGPP port doesn't support networking features.

> All the docs seem to suggest that co-process operator works under the
> Microsoft Win environment.

You mean, the Microsoft Lose environment, yes?

For that, you will need a native Windows port of Gawk.  Try looking in 
the Cygwin collection.