[fpc-pascal] TProcess vs RunProcess()

[Lars]

On Sun, January 29, 2017 1:36 pm, Santi wrote:

>  Maybe ExecuteProcess is calling some kind of shell,
> Freepascal developers will tell.
>


To call the shell you send in cmd /C

FpSystem does this, but it's on unix

Calling the shell is useful for not requiring absolute paths to
commands... which is why I like fpSystem...

And to call a dos command you need a shell like cmd /C because calling a
dos command won't do anything, it's not an exe (there is no DIR.exe file
for example AFAIK).. so to call DIR (same as LS on unix) you need to
invoke a shell.