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Re: system not working as expected


On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:38:57 +0200 (MEST), Jorge Goncalvez
<goncal11@col.bsf.alcatel.fr> wrote:

>I have made an application in C code it runs great if I launched it from Cygwin 
>Bash shell but if I launched it from Dos shell the call of system fails.
>Why?My cygcheck is 

<snip>

>  678k 2001/05/21 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\cygwin1.dll

Well, to start with you are not meant to put cygwin1.dll in your
system directory. It should only be in C:\cygwin\bin\ where the setup
program puts it.

If you want to call cygwin applications from Dos shells or windows
programs then add C:\cygwin\bin\ to your normal Dos path.
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