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Re: tcl, exec, starting a console
- To: Brian Craft <bcboy at dorothy dot wanglab dot brandeis dot edu>
- Subject: Re: tcl, exec, starting a console
- From: banders <banders at ECD dot Rockwell dot COM>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 00:44:23 -0600
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <19980115163027.04096@dorothy.wanglab.brandeis.edu>
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.
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