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Re: gracebat runs in X, but not as a system call from a perl script


Forgot to say that the error message is :the system cannot
execute the specified program
(failure code 256)

> 
> I do startxwin to open X and  then do 
> gracebat <parameters> 
> this does what I want, namely produce a jpeg file
> 
> Now if I try this for a perl script(run from X)
> system(gracebat <parameters>)
> 
> i.e. the exact same line that produced the right result
> I get an error.
> 
> I guess the reason is that I am using the activestate perl instead of the
> cygwin
>  perl; anyway there were reasons for that, not sure if valid or not[the
> reason
>  was getting DBD::Oracle to work, which was a huge pain].
> So I guess "system" to perl is whatever system Activestate was installed
> for,
> i.e. Windows.
>  The question is:
> Is it possible to get around this?
> Can I tweak the system command so that it executes  gracebat(but
>  otherwise use Activestate, e.g.  for Oracle DBI queries?
> 
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