I am trying to use os.system() to call another program that takes an input and an output file. The command I use is ~250 characters due to the long folder names. When I try to call the command, I'm getting an error: The input line is too long. I'm guessing there's a 255 character limit (its built using a C system call, but I couldn't ...
I'm trying to write a shell in Ruby, and to implement tab completion I am using the WinAPI function getch to read in a character at a time from the user, checking for tabs. The problem with this is the backspace key: It moves the cursor further back than the prompt (eg, with prompt hello> , the user can backspace the cursor on to the...
I am unable to print the euro symbol. The program I am using is below. I have set the character set to codepage 1250 which has 0x80 standing for the euro symbol. Program ======= #include <stdio.h> #include <locale.h> int main() { printf("Current locale is: %s\n", setlocale (LC_ALL, ".1250")); printf("Euro character: %c\n", 0x...
I'm writing a console program. The program doesn't print anything. So, it doesn't need to a console window. I tried to call FreeConsole() function at program starting point. When I execute the program from windows explorer, a console window appears and then disappears. But I wish the console window never appears. How can I do that?...
Hi I was trying to output unicode string to a console with iostreams and failed. I found this: Using unicode font in c++ console app and this snippet works. SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8); wchar_t s[] = L"èéøÞǽлљΣæča"; int bufferSize = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, s, -1, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL); char* m = new char[bufferSize]; WideChar...
Hello, I'm using System.Diagnostics.Process to execute an svn command from a windows console application. This is the configuration of the process: svn.StartInfo.FileName = svnPath; svn.StartInfo.Arguments = string.Format("copy {0}/trunk/ {0}/tags/{1} -r head -q --username {3} --password {4} -m \"{2}\"", basePathToRepo, tagName, messag...
I'm currently writing a C# console app that generates a number of urls that point to different images on a web site and then downloads those URLs as byte streams using WebClient.DownloadDataAsync. My issue is that once the first asynchronous call is made, the console app considers the program to be completed and terminates before the as...