On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 09:03:14PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
Since I've never tried running any GNU stuff on Windows, so cannot offer any advice based on experience, I thought I'd better acquire some before shooting my nouth off.
Hmmmn, I don't really know about your gawk problem. I'm guessing that DOS thinks ' is a special character of some kind, but another software package to consider is cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com/ it means you can run bash (and other GNU software, check the site for more details) on windows and it presents you with a unix/linux like environment running inside Windows, it should allow you to get a working awk.
Thanks Adam