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Re: Issue with system command in Octave 4.0.0 GUI
- From: "James R. Phillips" <james_r_phillips at yahoo dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:23:43 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Issue with system command in Octave 4.0.0 GUI
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- Reply-to: "James R. Phillips" <james_r_phillips at yahoo dot com>
Hello Marco,
It surprises me that the octave-gui command window is not considered a proper terminal, as it apparently has many terminal features.
I confirm that
> system('xterm')
works fine.
I agree that the issue is not critical, because the Octave manual does not guarantee that
> system('bash')
will provide a command prompt.
However I note that it does work in both Linux builds and the native Windows MXE builds (the MXE builds ship with what seems to be a complete version of MSYS2, including bash).
Thanks for your excellent work in maintaining this and several other cygwin packages.
Regards
Jim Phillips
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