Launching a Cygwin/DOS program

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Fri Jul 4 15:04:00 EDT 2003


On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 06:02 AM, Hans wrote:

> The following command fails:
>
>  launch "cygwin_program > logfile.txt"
>
> However, when I put the cygwin_program into a DOS batch file it all 
> works,
>
> batch file :
>   cygwin_program > %1
> Revolution :
>   launch "cygwin_program.bat logfile.txt"
>
> If I use the open process command revolution hangs
>
> open process "cygwin_program" for read
> read from process "cygwin_program" until end
> put it into field "logfile"
> close process "cygwin_program"

As Jan said, use shell.  The above should be reported.

Dar Scott




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