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Date: | Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:31:47 +0200 |
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Subject: | Re: gracebat runs in X, but not as a system call from a perl script |
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Forgot to say that the error message is :the system cannot execute the specified program (failure code 256) > > I do startxwin to open X and then do > gracebat <parameters> > this does what I want, namely produce a jpeg file > > Now if I try this for a perl script(run from X) > system(gracebat <parameters>) > > i.e. the exact same line that produced the right result > I get an error. > > I guess the reason is that I am using the activestate perl instead of the > cygwin > perl; anyway there were reasons for that, not sure if valid or not[the > reason > was getting DBD::Oracle to work, which was a huge pain]. > So I guess "system" to perl is whatever system Activestate was installed > for, > i.e. Windows. > The question is: > Is it possible to get around this? > Can I tweak the system command so that it executes gracebat(but > otherwise use Activestate, e.g. for Oracle DBI queries? > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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