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RE: Command boxes popping up



On Monday, December 13, 2004 9:39 AM, [DELETED] wrote

> Hi Dave,
> 
> No, I have no problems with graphical applications.
> 
> My scripts run a variety of commands, mostly cygwin,
> but some applications run in a DOS shell.
> 
> To elaborate, I run bash, and inside this shell I start ActiveState
> Perl, which of course knows nothing about Cygwin. The script run by
> ActiveState's Perl, then starts system or `` commands, and it is
> from there that I get command boxes.
> 
> I have run a small test :
> $ /cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/perl -e "system \"dir\""
> 
> and this pops up a DOS command box while the command
> executes.
> 
> I did not have that before, and the only thing changed was
> the upgrade to Cygwin 1.5.11.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jurgen

I am running Cygwin 1.5.12.

I also have ActiveState Perl installed (5.6.1, build 638).

Running your test script does not produce a pop-up box for me.  It
displays the results in the existing cygwin bash shell.

-Jason

PS - I apologize in advance for the legal disclaimer at the bottom of my
email message.  This is tacked on by our SMTP gateway and I have no
control over it.
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