Re: Calling an external command from a Haskell program

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Thanks, fixed now. Just a plain old bug in the Hugs codebase.

--sigbjorn

C.Reinke wrote:
>> The function system works fine in Hugs except on windows where DOS
>> limitations cause the function to always return ExitSuccess.  (ghc
>> suffers from the same problem on Windows.)
> 
> Actually, that is not quite correct: ghc seems to suffer from this
> problem only on older Windows versions (such as Windows 98), whereas
> Hugs seems to have the bug also on newer Windows versions (such as
> XP), at least in its current binary release.. I reported the
> ghc/win98 problem earlier, below is what happens on Windows XP.
> 
> So the bug seems even worse in Hugs than in GHC?
> 
> Claus