[gambit-list] Gambit on Windows with no console window

REPLeffect repleffect at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 18:42:04 EDT 2012


On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Marc Feeley <feeley at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
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> On 2012-04-12, at 5:08 PM, Mikael wrote:
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>> (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.)
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> 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.
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  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

REPLeffect



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