Re: GUI Awk

On Jan 27, 3:16 am, Ted Davis <tda...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:09:21 -0800, happytoday wrote:
> > Is TAWK DLL has the strength as gawk functions has ?
>
> Yes and no. It has true multi-dimensional arrays, but does not have the
> gawk extensions to plain awk.  I no longer use TAWK because gawk better
> suits my text processing needs.
>
> For GUI user interfaces, I use Apache and Firefox with gawk doing the
CGI
> processes.  Also with some PHP mixed in.  I no longer use WinBatch
either
> - I have compiler licenses for both TAWK and WinBatch, but they just sit
> there unused.  The text mode interface in the window running gawk is
> adequate for most purposes.  The main exception is file selection via a
> windows file selection dialog box - for this I use a free utility from
> Frank Westlake (<http://www.geocities.com/fp.westlake/nt/>)
called
> ConGetFile with this syntax
>
>   "congetfile.exe\" | getline string
>
> --
>
> T.E.D. (tda...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) MST (Missouri University of Science and
Technology)
> used to be UMR (University of Missouri - Rolla).

Is the gawk can have interface interaction under Solaris (Unix) ?