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On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 13:10 -0700, Ben Blackwell wrote:
> I started the test program in a cygwin (unix/linux emulator) window
> and the
> command "ls -l" gives the long listing of the files/directories. I had
> already tried "test = system('dir')" from within a dos (cmd) window
> and
> while no error messages were generated, the dos command 'dir' was not
> performed.

I think DIR is a "built in" command in the DOS box, not a program.  Try
running a program.

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