RE: [perlce-user] PerlCE and "real" console

[Konovalov, V. <vko...@sp...>]

> sorry if this question appeared before, I'm new to the list 
> and didn't 
> find anything on the FAQ/ML archive/etc.

in ideal world - this eventually grow throughought WiKi
In real world - it will not be done until someone will do.
But, being even more realistic - information will eventually grow indeed.

> 
> is it possible to have PerlCE _without_ the fake console window, but 
> with _real_ STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR hooks?
> 
> as probably many of you did, I have installed PocketConsole from 
> http://www.symbolictools.de/ and Microsoft's CMD.exe on my 
> iPAQ: so now 
> I have a command prompt. but the current PerlCE, launched from there, 
> still pops up its own window and place its output in 
> /perl_(stdout|stderr|stdin).txt.

its own window will not show up if -nocolsole option is used
I am not exactly sure for spelling, but I will be more precise after RTFSing
a bit.

As another point, CMD.exe is not supported on (very) old WinCEs


> 
> what I would like to have is a Perl executable really 
> interacting with 
> the CLI, as on any regular desktop computer.

IMO,  using PerlIDE is probably a way to make sutuation easier.

> 
> I tried to investigate the issue by looking at the code, but 
> it seems to 
> me that this "fake-console" is a feature of celib, which 
> can't be avoided.

it can be avoided but this is not largest problem, unfortunately :)