From: banders@ECD.Rockwell.COM (banders) Subject: Re: tcl, exec, starting a console 19 Jan 1998 16:15:49 -0800 Message-ID: <34C1A4C7.2C91.cygnus.gnu-win32@switch.rockwell.com> References: <19980115163027.04096@dorothy.wanglab.brandeis.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Brian Craft Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Try starting it up the way you did to get your first bash shell... I have a shortcut to start up egcs If you have a shortcut in your path, then just type start shortcut.pif I just typed start c:\\windows\\.....\\egcs.pif bash will eat a single \ or I could type start c:/windows/..../egcs.pif (tested all of them ;) Bart Brian Craft wrote: > > Hi. I'm wondering how I can start a program in a separate window from tcl. > > Under Unix I pop up an xterm, but I haven't figured out a way to > start another console with cygwin. In tcl > > exec ls > > Produces what you might expect, returning the result to tcl. Executing bash, > however, produces just what it would under Unix: nothing. It doesn't pop up a > console, it just returns immediately. I also tried exec'ing a DOS script (.bat > file) which starts bash, and running command.com, but both just hang. > > All this was on Win95, running coolview, wish42 and entering tcl exec commands > into the console. > > b.c. > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".