Dear Sébastien, dear Dan, On 14.01.2010, at 20:39, Sébastien Vauban wrote:
> Hi Dan, > > Dan Davison wrote: >> Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgw...@spammotel.com> writes: > [...] > So, trying to answer your question, I would split it in two parts: > > - calling scripts, > - calling applications with some data or description. > > First case: script written for the shell. Without cygwin, your interpreter is > `cmd.exe', so pretty limited. And, here, we come back to one question I had > some weeks ago about which interpreter is chosen when executing the snippet: > bash, Zsh, etc. Same problem here, with a third possible command interpreter. > > Second case: "applications" like R, ditaa, etc. There, I don't see any problem > for calling them with some data to feed them. The only real condition is that > the program must be found in the PATH (or the full path to the executable has > to be given). I would like to add something which we had to learn the hard way when working on a platform-independent project with a commandline-interface: the native commandline in MS Windows (cmd.exe) can only digest input with significantly fewer characters than the usual shells in Linux and Solaris - and then you get really strange and unhelpful error messages. The number of characters for Windows XP is 8191 characters, for older systems (Windows 2000) it is about 2000 characters. This was a showstopper-class problem for us (we worked around this by putting all previous commandline arguments into an optional parameter file), much later we found an official Microsoft article on this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830473/EN-US Warm regards, Stefan -- Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys. Max-Planck-Institut für neurologische Forschung Gleuelerstr. 50, 50931 Köln, Germany Tel.: +49-221-4726-213 FAX +49-221-4726-298 Tel.: +49-221-478-5713 Mobile: 0160-93874279 Email: voll...@nf.mpg.de http://www.nf.mpg.de _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode