On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> wrote: > Greetings, Kenneth Wolcott! > >> Where can I find information regarding the pros and cons of using or >> not using the cmd command to execute Windows commands from Cygwin? > > If you clarify, what exactly you are trying to achieve, it would be immensely > easier to answer your question, and the answer will be much more useful. > > That aside, I see a very short list of commands that have no equivalents in > Cygwin environment, and very few of them are actually sensible. > > Soo... which of the.. what? two commands? you plan to use? > > My list is as follows: > > 1. Internal commands affecting the system, but have no counterpart in Cygwin: > ASSOC > ERASE > FTYPE > VERIFY > VOL (?) > > 2. Internal commands with no meaning outside interpreter, or even restricted > to use in batch files, which may or may not have equivalents in Cygwin: > BREAK > CALL > CLS > CMD > COLOR > DIR > ECHO > ENDLOCAL > EXIT > FOR > GOTO > HELP > IF > PAUSE > PROMPT > REM > SETLOCAL > SHIFT > TITLE > VER > > 3. Internal commands, that have appropriate counterparts in Cygwin: > CD > CHDIR > COPY > DATE > DEL > DOSKEY > MD > MKDIR > MOVE > PATH > POPD > PUSHD > RD > REN > RENAME > REPLACE > RMDIR > SET > START (y/n) > TIME > TYPE > > External utilities disguised as internal commands, which may or may not have > counterparts in Cygwin: > AT > ATTRIB > CACLS > CHCP > CHKDSK > CHKNTFS > COMP > COMPACT > CONVERT > DISKCOMP > DISKCOPY > FC > FIND > FINDSTR > FORMAT > GRAFTABL > LABEL > MORE > PRINT > RECOVER > SORT > SUBST > TREE > XCOPY
Hi Audrey; I was going to execute a MS-VC++ compiler command, not a DOS/Windows command. I want to do as much as I could for capturing the stdout/stderr output and for capturing the exit status like I would as if I were on a Linux system, or the best that I can under these circumstances. Thanks, Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
