I know, and I apologise for using the W word, but I have users asking if they can use my gawk scripts, but I just know they're not going to like using the DOS command line.

Is there any way for me to run my gawk scripts from a gui? Even if it's from a web page (html, php, what ever). I do not know if DOS batch files are capable of passing command line arguments the same way as unix shell scripts are, I guess I'll be looking into that too but just thought that I would ask here as well in case anyone has come across this problem before.

Just write a very simple vb script menu to call a bat file that runs your gawk against some user specified input. Most of ours are a few lines of vb at most.

Thanks for the excellent advice, it has only one major draw-back and that is that I do not know any VB, I wouldn't even know where to start. Care to give me a few pointers please?

vb express used to be free and may still be available, and being basic is dead easy to learn, but being MS is piss poor to learn. try a google search for it.
the first result from Mr. Google is http://www.microsoft.com/Express/VB/ and looks to be what you could use

and looking a bit further into it, the MS download site doesn't allow firefox to download the latest version, but it does allow you to download the 2005 version, which will still be useful for writing "instant" gui's (read resource hogs)
try
http://www.microsoft.com/express/200...d/default.aspx