On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
> I liked the idea and didn't like the fact that it doesn't work under
> windows :-)
Under the default command shell? I assume it works under Cygwin with no
problems.
> BTW, I have a version that does allow you to specify the path. And
> even whether you want to capture STDERR or wait for the process
> to complete :
>
> use Shell dir => 'dir !';
> $res = dir 'c:\this_does_not_exist';
>
> or
>
> use Shell edit => 'c:\soft\wscite\scite.exe&';
> $pid = edit( $pathtofile);
>
> It is not complete yet, not tested under anything but Win2k and I'm
> not sure it'll be accepted.
I think that would be a useful thing. By all means finish it. I bet you
can fins volunteers to help test under various Unix flavors (I can do
Linux, Solaris & CygWin).
-- Brett
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