Re: ! shell-escapes on Windows.

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

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> Proposed solution #1: get rid of winsystem() altogether.  Just call
> system() like on all other platforms, and trust the compiler authors to
> know what they're doing. Drawback: there's no time to go through a test
> of'em all to make sure that assumption is reliable.

Seizing an opportunity to have it tested on the second most important
platform (besides Cygwin/MinGW32, that is), i.e. MSVC++,  I concluded
that this is good enough to go, so I checked it in.

(I actually left the code in, just disabled the actual call of 
winsystem() by an additional conditional, so we can tell users how
to re-enable it easily if they have to...)

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.