Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:09:46 -0400 To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Problem with system() Message-ID: <20000727110946.A3754@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Glenn.Davis@predictive.com on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 11:04:22AM -0400 On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 11:04:22AM -0400, Glenn.Davis@predictive.com wrote: >>On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:42:19AM -0400, Glenn.Davis@predictive.com >wrote: >>>Chris, >>>I guesss I should have given more info. >>>I tried >>> system ("command /c dir") >>>and yes, I am using Windows 95. >> >>I don't know what's wrong but I would check basic things like your PATH. >>If you don't have a command.com in your path then system is obviously >>not going to be able to run "command". > >I know I don't sound like I know what I am doing, but I did look at my >Path. I am able to run commands from inside bash. I even put the full >path of the commands in the system call. I still get the same results. It finally dawned on me that since you haven't installed the complete cygwin package you probably don't have /bin/sh. UNIX uses /bin/sh to invoke programs for the system() command. Ditto, cygwin. That program is found in the 'ash' tar ball. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com