Re: system'ing a gui app

Your code works fine when I run it on Win2K. Which OS are you using? One thing you could try is

system("start $cmd");
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Re: Re: system'ing a gui app by xafwodahs (Scribe) on Nov 01, 2002 at 16:06 UTC
I'm using Win2K. Adding the 'start' seems to work. Did it work on your machine without the 'start' ??? What does 'start' actually do? I've never seen that before.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: system'ing a gui app by kelan (Deacon) on Nov 02, 2002 at 05:25 UTC
The Windows' "start" command is simply a launcher that can be used from a command prompt to start windowed programs in various ways. You can also use "start" on registered file types directly (ie, "start MyPaper.doc") and it will act like you double-clicked on that file in an Explorer view. It's pretty nifty sometimes. kelan Perl6 Grammar Student	[reply]