Re: [Oorexx-devel] What impact will Microsoft's removal of cmd.exe from Windows 10 have on ooRexx?

Surely that can be addressed by adjustments to the PATH environmental variable. Sent by Magic! > On Dec 7, 2016, at 12:47 PM, Terry Fuller wrote: > > The replacement for cmd.exe is powershell. It's already available in > several releases, alongside cmd.exe. It is, however

Re: [Oorexx-devel] What impact will Microsoft's removal of cmd.exe from Windows 10 have on ooRexx?

The article say that going forward, cmd.exe will no longer be distributed. The power shell provides all the functionality that cmd.exe has in the past. This is somewhat like UNIX/Linux which replaced the Bourne Shell (sh) with the Bourne Again Shell (bash) many years ago. Bruce Sent by

Re: [Oorexx-devel] What impact will Microsoft's removal of cmd.exe from Windows 10 have on ooRexx?

The replacement for cmd.exe is powershell. It's already available in several releases, alongside cmd.exe. It is, however not backward compatible... things like invoking a program from the current directory in powershell requires .\pgm.rex rather than pgm.rex. Several other non-compatible

Re: [Oorexx-devel] What impact will Microsoft's removal of cmd.exe from Windows 10 have on ooRexx?

I agree with Mark's reading. That environment is not going away, but will no longer be the default. It would be nice if ooRexx had a powershell address environment. Not sure who has the interest in implementing one though. Rick On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Mark L. Gaubatz

Re: [Oorexx-devel] What impact will Microsoft's removal of cmd.exe from Windows 10 have on ooRexx?

The article is highly misleading. If I am reading the sources properly, MS is completing the deprecation of the MS-DOS command line environment in favor of PowerShell. The CW article absolutely did the environment a disservice in their presentation. Mark On 12/07/2016 11:32 AM, Michael Lueck

Re: [Oorexx-devel] What impact will Microsoft's removal of cmd.exe from Windows 10 have on ooRexx?

The article is highly misleading. If I am reading the sources properly, MS is completing the deprecation of the MS-DOS command line environment in favor of PowerShell. The CW article absolutely did the environment a disservice in their presentation. Mark On 12/07/2016 11:32 AM, Michael Lueck

Re: [Oorexx-devel] What impact will Microsoft's removal of cmd.exe from Windows 10 have on ooRexx?

Michael, ooRexx will run fine in a PowerShell window as long as the COMSPEC environment variable points to a program that will execute host commands. If CMD.EXE really were to disappear, ooRexx could still issue any host command, which the program COMSPEC points to, is able to run. On Wed, Dec

Re: [Oorexx-devel] What impact will Microsoft's removal of cmd.exe from Windows 10 have on ooRexx?

Greetings Rony, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: > what are your sources? "Say goodbye to the MS-DOS command prompt" http://www.computerworld.com/article/3147668/operating-systems/say-goodbye-to-the-ms-dos-command-prompt.html > If MS would remove cmd.exe most programs (including their owns) would

Re: [Oorexx-devel] What impact will Microsoft's removal of cmd.exe from Windows 10 have on ooRexx?

Michael Lueck wrote: > However for legacy support, I do end up touching Windows frequently. ;-) > Valid question still stands. I am thankful, Last I checked OORexx runs in Cygwin xterms. Are those broken in Windows 10? -- Jack Woehr # "Democracy is the theory that the common

Re: [Oorexx-devel] What impact will Microsoft's removal of cmd.exe from Windows 10 have on ooRexx?

Michael, what are your sources? If MS would remove cmd.exe most programs (including their owns) would break. Therefore it is very unlikely that they remove cmd.exe support. ---rony On 07.12.2016 19:02, Michael Lueck wrote: > Greetings Team, > > I recently read of Microsoft's plan to remove

Re: [Oorexx-devel] What impact will Microsoft's removal of cmd.exe from Windows 10 have on ooRexx?

Jack Woehr wrote: > Michael Lueck wrote: >> I would think ooRexx would need some sort of replacement of cmd.exe to send >> shell commands to. > > The replacement is readily available. It's called "Linux" :) I know that... I have been using Linux as my primary desktop OS since 2007. However for

Re: [Oorexx-devel] What impact will Microsoft's removal of cmd.exe from Windows 10 have on ooRexx?

Michael Lueck wrote: > I would think ooRexx would need some sort of replacement of cmd.exe to send > shell commands to. The replacement is readily available. It's called "Linux" :) -- Jack Woehr # "Democracy is the theory that the common people Box 51, Golden CO 80402 # know

[Oorexx-devel] What impact will Microsoft's removal of cmd.exe from Windows 10 have on ooRexx?

Greetings Team, I recently read of Microsoft's plan to remove cmd.exe from a coming update to Windows 10. What impact will that removal have on ooRexx? Is the ability to run a text mode application also under attack, or for now just removal of cmd.exe? I would think ooRexx would need some