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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/