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From: Kevin Schnitzius <kevin DOT schnitzius AT citrix DOT com>
To: "'m DOT buchmeier AT fz-juelich DOT de'" <m DOT buchmeier AT fz-juelich DOT de>,
   cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Subject: RE: system() function doesnt work outside cygwin
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:12:55 -0500 
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Try this program:

main()
{
system("cmd /c echo %path%");
}

Kevin

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	mbuch AT IFF572 DOT IFF DOT KFA-JUELICH DOT DE
[mailto:mbuch AT IFF572 DOT IFF DOT KFA-JUELICH DOT DE] 
Sent:	Monday, November 05, 2001 14:07
To:	cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Subject:	system() function doesnt work outside cygwin

My application (build with unix layer, recent cygwin
distro, win2K) cant call other programs using the system() 
fucntion when started from outside the cygwin enviroment.
I have tryed out both posix and unix complete path
without success.
Here is a simple code that reproduces the problem:

main()
{
system("notepad");
}

It works fine when invoked from within cygwin
but when called fron windows nothing happens.

Anyone knows what i am doing wrong ?
Thanks in advance for your help

		Matthias


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