Jim George wrote: >> cmd.exe is surprisingly more powerful than a lot of people realize >> though I still personally abhor it. >> -jkl >> > > May be so, but you can't do things that you take for granted in Unix, > like running multiple commands in sequence with a semicolon. And, as
You can string them together with &&. I just tried to string them together with semicolons. It does something, but I don't see a consistent behavior (and I don't care enough to figure it out.) > far as I know, the "system" function in most Win32 compilers does not > try to invoke a command interpreter, it just runs the program > specified, with arguments. That's true. But the command you tell it to run can be cmd.exe, then you are starting a shell. Besides, the Windows implementation is no more right or wrong than the Unix one, just different. -- Guy Rouillier _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
