[win32] selftest of latest bzr.dev with encodings improvements

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Mon Jun 12 10:48:03 BST 2006


On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 07:23 +0300, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel пишет:
> > 
> > As near as I can tell, you can't actually spawn 'del' on windows. Both
> > 'del' and 'erase' seem to be builtin commands from 'cmd.exe'
> 
> Yes, exactly. 'del' is command of shell, not separate program. So it 
> cannot be called without shell.
> 
> > 
> > The only way I've found to run it, is by calling:
> > 
> > call(['cmd.exe', '/c', 'del', filename])
> 
> This approach has one minor issue: it does not compatible with Windows 
> 98. Despite the fact we don't try to provide support for win98 anyway I 
> think it's good to choose more universal solution.
> 
> Yesterday I send bundle with patch that wrap del command into bat-file 
> so it also works OK, because it runs in command shell. So my patch is 
> more win98-friendly. I'm willing to don't use win98, so I'm happy with 
> your patch too.
> 
> Anyway, +1.

'command /c del' should work on both platforms no ?

Rob
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