RE: System.Process.system in Windows

2011-08-04 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| I had a bit of fun recently tracking down quoting issues with the | "system" command in Windows. For the examples below, I'll consistently | use "Windows> " as the beginning of some text sent to the Windows | command prompt cmd.exe, and use "GHC> " as the beginning of some text | sent to a ghci s

Re: System.Process.system in Windows

2011-08-03 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 18:57, wrote: > (And in any case, the examples above should answer this amusing comment, > immediately following those lines: > >-- We don't want to put the cmd into a single >-- argument, because cmd.exe will not try to split it up. Instead, >-- we

System.Process.system in Windows

2011-08-03 Thread wagnerdm
Hello all, I had a bit of fun recently tracking down quoting issues with the "system" command in Windows. For the examples below, I'll consistently use "Windows> " as the beginning of some text sent to the Windows command prompt cmd.exe, and use "GHC> " as the beginning of some text sent