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On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:37:05 +0100, Alexander Schremmer <usenet2003d at alexanderweb.de> wrote: >Hi, > >I am annoyed at some behaviour of CVSNT: every invocation of helper >programs defined in the administrative files like notify force CVSNT to use >cmd.exe and therefore open a (in most cases) blank console window on Win >NT. Why does CVSNT need to distinguish between NT and non-NT at this point? It doesn't on any platform I've used... unless you have your cmd.exe somehow set to always show a window. (There was a version I think that did that on some platforms but never pinned it down to a specific reason). >IMHO it should be possible to just launch the stored command directly on >both platforms. If somebody needs some cmd.exe internal commands, he can >still enhance the command line by "cmd.exe /c " in the administrative The way it works now is pretty much the best of both worlds. You need cmd.exe for non-executable files like batch files and perl files, commands like 'echo', redirection, lots of stuff like that. Tony