gracebat runs in X, but not as a system call from a perl script
moka@hol.gr
moka@hol.gr
Wed Feb 21 15:31:00 GMT 2007
Forgot to say that the error message is :the system cannot
execute the specified program
(failure code 256)
>
> I do startxwin to open X and then do
> gracebat <parameters>
> this does what I want, namely produce a jpeg file
>
> Now if I try this for a perl script(run from X)
> system(gracebat <parameters>)
>
> i.e. the exact same line that produced the right result
> I get an error.
>
> I guess the reason is that I am using the activestate perl instead of the
> cygwin
> perl; anyway there were reasons for that, not sure if valid or not[the
> reason
> was getting DBD::Oracle to work, which was a huge pain].
> So I guess "system" to perl is whatever system Activestate was installed
> for,
> i.e. Windows.
> The question is:
> Is it possible to get around this?
> Can I tweak the system command so that it executes gracebat(but
> otherwise use Activestate, e.g. for Oracle DBI queries?
>
>
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