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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:23:43 +0000 (UTC)
From: "James R. Phillips" <james_r_phillips AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Issue with system command in Octave 4.0.0 GUI
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Hello Marco,

It surprises me that the octave-gui command window is not considered a proper terminal, as it apparently has many terminal features.

I confirm that

> system('xterm')

works fine.

I agree that the issue is not critical, because the Octave manual does not guarantee that

> system('bash') 

will provide a command prompt.

However I note that it does work in both Linux builds and the native Windows MXE builds (the MXE builds ship with what seems to be a complete version of MSYS2, including bash).

Thanks for your excellent work in maintaining this and several other cygwin packages.

Regards

Jim Phillips

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