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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Starting .exe: DOS prompt OK, double-click not
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:22:41 +0100
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> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On
> Behalf Of Kodaj Bence

--8<--
> =============================================
> Everything's fine when I start OurApp.exe from a DOS prompt.
> =============================================
>
> Now, OurApp.exe invokes wish like this:
>
>   execlp( "wish", "wish", "./OurScript.tcl" , ...);
>
> My question is: why does this call work in the "DOS-prompt mode", and
> why doesn't it work in "double-click mode"? Let me emphasize again
> that wish is invoked _in the same way_ in both cases.
>
> Bence Kodaj

 DOS accepts / as path item separator *to some extent*
	C:\> dir "c:/windows/command"
works (Win98-DOS); NOTE that the quotes are necessary.

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden

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