Re: get tclapp-wrapped app to display output in DOS console?

Gerald W. Lester wrote:
Bryan Oakley wrote:
We have an application wrapped with tclapp that runs on windows. It writes gunk to stdout. If I run this program from a cygwin bash shell, the output appears as expected and all is well.

I recently discovered, however, that the same executable run with the same command line from a DOS shell doesn't display any output in the DOS window. The program appears to run in the background and I have no idea where stdout is going.

Is there a way to see my output in a DOS console? I discovered that if I run my program and redirect output to a file, the output does indeed go to the file. I can also pipe the output through the DOS "more" command and see the output, but I don't want the user to be forced to use "more".

If nothing else I'll write a .bat file that redirects the output to a file, then cat (well, "type") the file. I'd rather not have to resort to that, however. At the moment I'm limiting myself to only DOS commands -- no cygwin or tclsh solutions. I'm ignorant about batch file programming on DOS so I don't really know what my options are. Anyone have any ideas?

Did you specify the tclsh type runtime or the wish type runtime -- if you specified the wish type one then the above symptoms would happen.


Wish. Yes, I know there's a distinction. What's odd is that I get the behavior I want when running from cygwin/bash, just not from a DOS window. Coming from a mostly unixy background I find DOS just terribly, terribly lame.


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