Re: wjed and the system() command

[Jørgen Larsen <jl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, John E. Davis wrote:

> Jørgen Larsen <jl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >The system() command in wjed has a somewhat surprising feature:
> >it translates its argument (a string) from Windows codepage to DOS codepage.
>
> What OS are you using?  win95? 98? 2000? NT?
>
> The "system" function used by wjed is essentually a wrapper around the
> win32 CreatePipe and CreateProcess functions.  The CreateProcess
> function actually calls the "shell" as defined by the "COMSPEC"
> environment variable.  I suspect that if character-set translation is
> happening, then it is happening there.  For example, on NT this
> results in the command
>
>    cmd.exe $JED_ROOT\w32\w32shell.exe ispell ...whatever...
>
> Perhaps someone who knows more about win32 process creation can
> comment further.

I am using NT.



Jørgen