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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:00:03 -0400
From: Archie Warnock <warnock AT awcubed DOT com>
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Subject: Re: system() fails on pristine Windows systems
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René Berber wrote:
> I don't know if it works but I would try to use popen(), there's also
> exec() and all it's relatives.

I'll try popen.  I'm not inclined to use anything from exec or spawn - I
don't want to replace the program.  I just need to run an external
program and read the results back in.

> Registry perhaps, the cygwin1.dll has to set a sane environment for
> itself, it probably gets the location of the Cygwin installation plus
> the mount table and some environment variables.

I understand.  Thanks.

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Archie

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