On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Marc Feeley feeley@iro.umontreal.ca wrote:
On 2012-04-12, at 5:08 PM, Mikael wrote:
(Ah, there's even more to it btw, if you make a "windows" application and launch it from a console application, and then in that "windows" application you make actually performs console I/O operations, then a new console window is (dynamically) allocated for that IO i.e. it opens on top of the parent console window.)
Is there a natural "standard input/output" for windows applications? If there is, then Gambit should not redirect them to the newly allocated console. However, if there isn't as I think is the case, then it makes sense to redirect standard input/output to it, as is the case now.
As Mikael rightly pointed out, no. stdin is basically meaningless, and output to stdout and stderr goes to the bitbucket normally under Windows GUI apps. I say just add it to the long list of things that work better under Unix/Linux-style operating systems. Unfortunately most of us who make our living dealing with computers still have to deal with Windows.
Well, at least I don't have to write COBOL for a living :-D
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