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Re: system not working as expected
- To: Jorge Goncalvez <goncal11 at col dot bsf dot alcatel dot fr>, cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: system not working as expected
- From: Mark Gordon <mark dot cygwin at ruddygore dot net>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 14:49:41 +0100
- Organization: Only Occasionally
- References: <200110041339.PAA10383@cabs40.col.bsf.alcatel.fr>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:38:57 +0200 (MEST), Jorge Goncalvez
<goncal11@col.bsf.alcatel.fr> wrote:
>I have made an application in C code it runs great if I launched it from Cygwin
>Bash shell but if I launched it from Dos shell the call of system fails.
>Why?My cygcheck is
<snip>
> 678k 2001/05/21 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\cygwin1.dll
Well, to start with you are not meant to put cygwin1.dll in your
system directory. It should only be in C:\cygwin\bin\ where the setup
program puts it.
If you want to call cygwin applications from Dos shells or windows
programs then add C:\cygwin\bin\ to your normal Dos path.
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