Then I think the strategy should be not to use system() since BASIC should be able to do anything the shell can do internally anyway.
Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889) www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com www.eff.org www.gnu.org www.fsf.org On 07/15/2018 01:25 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, TK Chia wrote: > >> Regarding bwBASIC's SHELL( ) problem, I believe this is because the >> interpreter (in bwb_fnc.c in v3.20) uses system( ) to implement it, >> and both Watcom's system( ) function and `command.com /c' will return >> 0 as long as command.com is able to run at all. > > GW-BASIC's shell command works in the exact same way. > > -uso. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
