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 B.3.2.3 Running `gawk' on VMS
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 Command-line parsing and quoting conventions are significantly different
 on VMS, so examples in this Info file or from other sources often need
 minor changes.  They _are_ minor though, and all `awk' programs should
 run correctly.
 
    Here are a couple of trivial tests:
 
      $ gawk -- "BEGIN {print ""Hello, World!""}"
      $ gawk -"W" version
      ! could also be -"W version" or "-W version"
 
 Note that uppercase and mixed-case text must be quoted.
 
    The VMS port of `gawk' includes a `DCL'-style interface in addition
 to the original shell-style interface (see the help entry for details).
 One side effect of dual command-line parsing is that if there is only a
 single parameter (as in the quoted string program above), the command
 becomes ambiguous.  To work around this, the normally optional `--'
 flag is required to force Unix-style parsing rather than `DCL' parsing.
 If any other dash-type options (or multiple parameters such as data
 files to process) are present, there is no ambiguity and `--' can be
 omitted.
 
    The default search path, when looking for `awk' program files
 specified by the `-f' option, is `"SYS$DISK:[],AWK_LIBRARY:"'.  The
 logical name `AWKPATH' can be used to override this default.  The format
 of `AWKPATH' is a comma-separated list of directory specifications.
 When defining it, the value should be quoted so that it retains a single
 translation and not a multitranslation `RMS' searchlist.
 
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