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Subject: Re: gracebat runs in X, but not as a system call from a perl script
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Note sure I understand what the bash solution is:
 I do startxwin to open an X-session, then I do
 bash
and then run 
perl myscript.pl 
This stumbles on the same problem

So if I understand you correctly, replacing "gracebat"
by "C:\path_to_gracebat.exe\gracebat"(which cmd.exe would presumably understand)
would work?

> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, moka wrote:
> 
> > I do startxwin to open X and  then do
> > gracebat <parameters>
> > this does what I want, namely produce a jpeg file
> >
> > Now if I try this for a perl script(run from X)
> > system(gracebat <parameters>)
> >
> > i.e. the exact same line that produced the right result
> > I get an error.
> >
> > I guess the reason is that I am using the activestate perl instead of the
> > cygwin
> >  perl; anyway there were reasons for that, not sure if valid or not[the
> reason
> >  was getting DBD::Oracle to work, which was a huge pain].
> > So I guess "system" to perl is whatever system Activestate was installed
> for,
> > i.e. Windows.
> >  The question is:
> > Is it possible to get around this?
> > Can I tweak the system command so that it executes  gracebat(but
> >  otherwise use Activestate, e.g.  for Oracle DBI queries?
> 
> As the package list shows (I don't have grace installed), gracebat is a
> symlink.  A Windows program like ActiveState Perl will not understand
> Cygwin's symlinks (nor will it run a shell script, since it uses cmd as
> its shell).  The easiest thing you can do is invoke a Cygwin shell (bash,
> sh, pdksh, etc) and let it run the command.  That way, no matter what the
> command is (an executable, or a symlink, or a shell script), the shell
> will interpret it for you and invoke it properly.
> 
> Be careful with quoting -- you may want to use the list form of
> system()...
> 	Igor
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