Re: Windows DOS box redirection

2008-11-03 Thread Lie Ryan
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:35:25 +0100, Stef Mientki wrote: Bill McClain wrote: On 2008-10-31, Tim Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've got a few options. Ok, thanks! It is a small hobbyist community. I'll just document it and tell them life is hard for Windows users.

Re: Windows DOS box redirection

2008-11-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Dennis Lee Bieber (Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:34:32 -0700) On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 18:50:53 +0100, Thorsten Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: That article mentions a pipe - and has nothing to do with input or output redirection... And what is a pipe, at

Re: Windows DOS box redirection

2008-11-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Tim Golden (Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:21:12 +) Bill McClain wrote: On 2008-10-31, Glenn Linderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the MS article which describes the problem: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321788 and suggests that it's fixed in XP SP1 but this thread:

Windows DOS box redirection (was: Code not work - DESPERATE HELP)

2008-10-31 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-10-31, Glenn Linderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with stdin/stdout is on Windows 2000 (and maybe the earlier NT?). But not on XP or AFAIK Vista. It only occurs when a program is executed indirectly using the file associations instead of directly via the command line.

Re: Windows DOS box redirection

2008-10-31 Thread Tim Golden
Bill McClain wrote: On 2008-10-31, Glenn Linderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with stdin/stdout is on Windows 2000 (and maybe the earlier NT?). But not on XP or AFAIK Vista. It only occurs when a program is executed indirectly using the file associations instead of directly via

Re: Windows DOS box redirection

2008-10-31 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-10-31, Tim Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've got a few options. Ok, thanks! It is a small hobbyist community. I'll just document it and tell them life is hard for Windows users. -Bill -- Sattre PressThe King in Yellow http://sattre-press.com/

Re: Windows DOS box redirection

2008-10-31 Thread Stef Mientki
Bill McClain wrote: On 2008-10-31, Tim Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've got a few options. Ok, thanks! It is a small hobbyist community. I'll just document it and tell them life is hard for Windows users. Well I don't know any Windows users that still use DOS-boxes ;-)

Re: Windows DOS box redirection

2008-10-31 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-10-31, Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I don't know any Windows users that still use DOS-boxes ;-) cheers, What do they do when they want to run a cross-platform command-line script with parameters and redirection? I suppose they could install cygwin and run bash, but that

Re: Windows DOS box redirection

2008-10-31 Thread Tim Golden
Bill McClain wrote: On 2008-10-31, Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I don't know any Windows users that still use DOS-boxes ;-) cheers, What do they do when they want to run a cross-platform command-line script with parameters and redirection? I think it's a slight dig at the

Re: Windows DOS box redirection

2008-10-31 Thread Shawn Milochik
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Bill McClain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-10-31, Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I don't know any Windows users that still use DOS-boxes ;-) cheers, What do they do when they want to run a cross-platform command-line script with parameters and

Re: Windows DOS box redirection

2008-10-31 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 10/31/2008 5:06 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Bill McClain: On 2008-10-31, Glenn Linderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with stdin/stdout is on Windows 2000 (and maybe the earlier NT?). But not on XP or AFAIK Vista. It only occurs when

Re: Windows DOS box redirection

2008-10-31 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-10-31, Shawn Milochik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Easy. Make a desktop shortcut which includes the parameters, etc. People do that all the time, including for GUI apps such as Internet Explorer which have some optional command-line shortcuts. The only thing you have to do is make sure

Re: Windows DOS box redirection

2008-10-31 Thread Glenn Linderman
A little bit ago, I wrote: Creating the registry setting mentioned in this kb article didn't (immediately) solve the problem. Next time I reboot, I'll try to remember to test this again. It occurred to me to create a new CMD Prompt (yes, it is not a DOS box in these versions of Windows)

Re: Windows DOS box redirection

2008-10-31 Thread Bill McClain
On 2008-10-31, Bill McClain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, trying that...works, but the window doesn't stay open, so we can't see the results. Any way to do that? Sorry for the Windows-101 tutorial. I received an email solution: prepend the shortcut command with cmd.exe /k. Works great! -Bill

Re: Windows DOS box redirection

2008-10-31 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 10/31/2008 9:22 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Dennis Lee Bieber: On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:14:36 -0700, Glenn Linderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: A little bit ago, I wrote: Creating the registry setting