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"Andrew DeFaria" <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com> wrote in message
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> Well that tells you that your previous invocations of system and backquote
> constructs were not portable to start with. It would be far better to
> centralize such things to a subroutine to try to mitigate the portability
> issues. Then again if you are gonna call programs that just don't exist on
> anything but Windows you will have a problem. But perhaps you can do it in
> a more "posix" way. And if all else fails you can call the cmd built in
> with "cmd /c <command>".

Yes, I've done that in most cases, and tested $^O to know what to do. In the
case I noticed I was calling a Windows program by a Windows path and had no
reason to write it differently. So if I want to run that particular script
under Cygwin Perl I could branch to an sh-compatible call, or actually I
rather like the idea of "standardising" on system("cmd /c
...") even if it does waste a cmd.exe invocation :)

> As I said I don't know exactly why your Tk isn't working. I do know that
> Tk under Cygwin assumes a running X server. I rarely run an X server - I
> simply use rxvt instead - so I don't like that requirement. I also work
> with IBM/Rational products and often need to run ccperl or cqperl - both
> of which are AS based. And they have Tk in there that works straight on
> Windows (like rxvt does if it senses there is no X server running - I wish
> Cygwin's Perl::Tk would do that!).

Actually I had no idea - and I must say that rather dissuades me from using
it. I have no other need for an X server, and I quite like the way AS
Perl/Tk gives me Windows controls on Windows and X widgets on X. (I have
installed AS Perl on Solaris and run some of my Perl/Tk scripts there
without problem. Thanks for pointing that out.



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