system() fails on pristine Windows systems
René Berber
rberber@prodigy.net.mx
Tue Apr 26 03:53:00 GMT 2005
Archie Warnock wrote:
[snip]
> It seems obvious to me that system() is not finding a command
> interpreter on the machine,
Exactly!
> although they are correctly listed in the
> path for the command window. Am I missing something really stupid that
> needs to be included in the distribution or set in the program, or does
> system() just not work the way I expect?
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'..."
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René Berber
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