Issue with system command in Octave 4.0.0 GUI

James R. Phillips james_r_phillips@yahoo.com
Tue Oct 20 15:25:00 GMT 2015


Hello Marco,

It surprises me that the octave-gui command window is not considered a proper terminal, as it apparently has many terminal features.

I confirm that

> system('xterm')

works fine.

I agree that the issue is not critical, because the Octave manual does not guarantee that

> system('bash') 

will provide a command prompt.

However I note that it does work in both Linux builds and the native Windows MXE builds (the MXE builds ship with what seems to be a complete version of MSYS2, including bash).

Thanks for your excellent work in maintaining this and several other cygwin packages.

Regards

Jim Phillips

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