Hi,
Well, I'm runing the program on computer that does not
have cygwin installed. I just put a copy of the
cygwin1.dll in the windows path.
My typo, I do have it like this
system("ls -la c:\\mydir >
c:\\mydir\\tmp\\lookup.txt")
as I mentioned in my post, the same program runs in
other computers running windows xp, just not running
on this particular machine.
--- Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The One wrote:
>
> > I have this C program running on windows xp and
> it's
> > calling system("ls -la c:\mydir >
> > c:\mydir\tmp\lookup.txt") to list "mydir" and pipe
> the
> > result to a file "lookup.txt" the subdirectory
> "tmp".
>
> Well for one thing, in C if you want a backslash in
> a string constant
> you need to use "\\". "\t" is the tab character,
> "\n" is a newline, and
> so on. Consult a book on C for more information,
> this is offtopic for
> the list.
>
> But if you're using Cygwin you should not be passing
> around win32 paths
> like that. Cygwin tools expect Posix paths, and
> that they happen to
> work with win32 paths is just coincidental and may
> break at any time.
> In fact there are many Cygwin utilities that will
> not work properly if
> you do this, you can see the results of these
> mistakes scattered
> throughout the list archives.
>
> You should use "c:/mydir", or preferably,
> "/cygdrive/c/mydir". Or, if
> you've changed your cygdrive prefix to "/" you could
> just use
> "/c/mydir". See also "man cygpath".
>
> Brian
>
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