Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <426DB60B.9090004@awcubed.com> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:31:23 -0400 From: Archie Warnock Organization: A/WWW Enterprises User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: system() fails on pristine Windows systems References: <426D5CAB.2070804@awcubed.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes René Berber wrote: > Yes, you are missing something really simple... have you seen the man > page for system()? Of course not, "Use `system' to pass a command > string `*S' to `/bin/sh'..." Hmmm... you're right. Thanks. I was hoping the mention of /bin/sh was more figurative - ie, just _a_ command interpreter. Guess not, eh? So, what would be the right way to call an external program from a Cygwin program without installing Cygwin, if not system()? I also find it somewhat puzzling that it works on my development machines even though /bin/sh isn't anywhere along in the path of the Windows command shell. -- Archie -- Archie Warnock Internet: warnock@awcubed.com -- A/WWW Enterprises http://www.awcubed.com -- As a matter of fact, I _do_ speak for my employer. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/