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 B.3.2.2 Installing `gawk' on VMS
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 To install `gawk', all you need is a "foreign" command, which is a
 `DCL' symbol whose value begins with a dollar sign. For example:
 
      $ GAWK :== $disk1:[gnubin]GAWK
 
 Substitute the actual location of `gawk.exe' for `$disk1:[gnubin]'. The
 symbol should be placed in the `login.com' of any user who wants to run
 `gawk', so that it is defined every time the user logs on.
 Alternatively, the symbol may be placed in the system-wide
 `sylogin.com' procedure, which allows all users to run `gawk'.
 
    Optionally, the help entry can be loaded into a VMS help library:
 
      $ LIBRARY/HELP SYS$HELP:HELPLIB [.VMS]GAWK.HLP
 
 (You may want to substitute a site-specific help library rather than
 the standard VMS library `HELPLIB'.)  After loading the help text, the
 command:
 
      $ HELP GAWK
 
 provides information about both the `gawk' implementation and the `awk'
 programming language.
 
    The logical name `AWK_LIBRARY' can designate a default location for
 `awk' program files.  For the `-f' option, if the specified file name
 has no device or directory path information in it, `gawk' looks in the
 current directory first, then in the directory specified by the
 translation of `AWK_LIBRARY' if the file is not found.  If, after
 searching in both directories, the file still is not found, `gawk'
 appends the suffix `.awk' to the filename and retries the file search.
 If `AWK_LIBRARY' has no definition, a default value of `SYS$LIBRARY:'
 is used for it.

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