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RE: system() function doesnt work outside cygwin


At 02:27 PM 11/5/2001, mbuch@IFF572.IFF.KFA-JUELICH.DE wrote:
>On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Kevin Schnitzius wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 14:12:55 -0500
> > From: Kevin Schnitzius <kevin.schnitzius@citrix.com>
> > To: "'m.buchmeier@fz-juelich.de'" <m.buchmeier@fz-juelich.de>,
> >      cygwin@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: RE: system() function doesnt work outside cygwin
> > 
> > Try this program:
> > 
> > main()
> > {
> > system("cmd /c echo %path%");
> > }
> > 
>
>It does the same:
>No output, not even an error-message when called from command-window
>or explorer and the expected output when called form inside cywin
>(bash) 


Ah, your path is different in bash than it is in Windows...



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