At Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:03:56 +1000, Daniel Harper wrote: > Unfortunately we don't run X . A point I should of made is that this script > works fine on a sco unix box running nawk.
well then, what version of awk are you using? how are you using it?
can you narrow it down to a simple example?
here (using either mawk 1.3.3 or gawk 3.1.0),
awk 'BEGIN {system("vi")}'
works as expected.
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