Thank you for your answer. Comments follow.
> This will attempt to spawn a copy of notepad for every line in
> the file foobar in background and then returns the command's status.
> In other words gawk will not wait for the notepad command to
> complete before moving to the next line in foobar
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From: "Capiez Lionel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 1:26 PM
Subject: gawk : Input file remaining locked after program termination
> Hi,
>
> I have a gawk program that parses a file and spawns (as needed) an
external
> (non
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