Archie Warnock wrote: [snip] > So, what would be the right way to call an external program from a > Cygwin program without installing Cygwin, if not system()?
I don't know if it works but I would try to use popen(), there's also exec() and all it's relatives. > I also find it somewhat puzzling that it works on my development > machines even though /bin/sh isn't anywhere along in the path of the > Windows command shell. Registry perhaps, the cygwin1.dll has to set a sane environment for itself, it probably gets the location of the Cygwin installation plus the mount table and some environment variables. -- Ren� Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
