At 07:42 PM 5/3/2001 +0200, Daniel Beulshausen wrote:
>At 19:24 03.05.2001 +0200, Daniel Beulshausen wrote:
>>At 20:04 03.05.2001 +0300, Andi Gutmans wrote:
>>>At 12:59 PM 5/3/2001 -0400, Joe Brown wrote:
>>>>echo typically is not a program.
>>>>It is a command in the CMD.exe or COMMAND.com programs.
>>>>
>>>>$output=exec("cmd -c echo hello"); //should produce the desired effect.
>>>>
>>>>Why piping output to a file changes this fact, is beyond me.
>>>
>>>The definition of exec() is that it uses popen() which starts a shell
>>>automatically. Anyway, the problem was very Windows specific and doesn't
>>>have anything to do with the syntax he used.
>>
>>right now we are executing the programm direct, without creating a console.
>>maybe we should manage a list of internal commands, like echo, dir,
>>copy,... and create a console for them...
>
>no it's a bad idea, i'll shut up :)
>cmd line parsing is a pretty bad idea, and the user is better of doing
>passthru( getenv("COMSPEC") . " /c echo")
Ouch but then the fix isn't popen() compatible.
Andi
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