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 10:52:55 -0400 To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Problem with system() Message-ID: <20000727105255.A24694@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com References: <20000727094828.A12969@cygnus.com> <39804C1C.C84E6F22@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39804C1C.C84E6F22@cygnus.com>; from vinschen@cygnus.com on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 04:50:04PM +0200 On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 04:50:04PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >Chris Faylor 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". > >You have to use "command.com /c dir" because the standard search >algorithm only finds apps which don't have an extension or which have >the ".exe" extension. ".com" isn't supported. This is the standard extension search: suffix_info std_suffixes[] = { suffix_info (".exe", 1), suffix_info ("", 1), suffix_info (".com"), suffix_info (".cmd"), suffix_info (".bat"), suffix_info (".dll"), suffix_info (NULL) }; So, .com should be supported. It is when I try it, anyway. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com