Re: system() fails on pristine Windows systems

[René Berber <rberber at prodigy dot net dot mx>]

Archie Warnock wrote:
[snip]
> It seems obvious to me that system() is not finding a command
> interpreter on the machine,

Exactly!

> although they are correctly listed in the
> path for the command window.  Am I missing something really stupid that
> needs to be included in the distribution or set in the program, or does
> system() just not work the way I expect?

Yes, you are missing something really simple... have you seen the man page for
system()?  Of course not, "Use  `system'  to pass a command string `*S' to
`/bin/sh'..."

-- 
René Berber


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