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Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 15:36:18 -0500
To: m DOT buchmeier AT fz-juelich DOT de, Kevin Schnitzius <kevin DOT schnitzius AT citrix DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: RE: system() function doesnt work outside cygwin
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At 02:27 PM 11/5/2001, mbuch AT IFF572 DOT IFF DOT KFA-JUELICH DOT DE wrote:
>On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Kevin Schnitzius wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 14:12:55 -0500
> > 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
> > 
> > Try this program:
> > 
> > main()
> > {
> > system("cmd /c echo %path%");
> > }
> > 
>
>It does the same:
>No output, not even an error-message when called from command-window
>or explorer and the expected output when called form inside cywin
>(bash) 


Ah, your path is different in bash than it is in Windows...



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