From: "Brett W. McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Jenda Krynicky wrote: > > > I liked the idea and didn't like the fact that it doesn't work under > > windows :-) > > Under the default command shell? I assume it works under Cygwin with > no problems. I did not try. I don't use the shell for any scripts ... just as a place to enter commands (and start PSH) at so I did not install any "unix" shell. And I have to say ... I'm not a *nix person anyway. Now the question is ... if it used to wikr with Cygwin before ... did not I brake it then? Or does the cygwin perl report something else than MSWin32 in $^O ? > > BTW, I have a version that does allow you to specify the path. And > > even whether you want to capture STDERR or wait for the process to > > complete : > > > > use Shell dir => 'dir !'; > > $res = dir 'c:\this_does_not_exist'; > > > > or > > > > use Shell edit => 'c:\soft\wscite\scite.exe&'; > > $pid = edit( $pathtofile); > > > > It is not complete yet, not tested under anything but Win2k and I'm > > not sure it'll be accepted. > > I think that would be a useful thing. By all means finish it. I bet > you can fins volunteers to help test under various Unix flavors (I can > do Linux, Solaris & CygWin). That would be great :-) Thanks, Jenda =========== [EMAIL PROTECTED] == http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ========== There is a reason for living. There must be. I've seen it somewhere. It's just that in the mess on my table ... and in my brain. I can't find it. --- me -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
