On 7/23/06, Alexandre Bergel <Alexandre.Bergel at cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
> > Sorry, you can do this on unix based platforms, but not on windows.
> > The Win32 version of OSPP is quite limited, and does not support
> > the necessary command piping.

I am puzzled.  Why is piping necessary to run 'ls -l /etc ;' ?

> Arg...
> So, I will hack something. I will probably do a small program in Peal
> or Ruby that open a socket and wait for commands to be sent through
> this socket. Any better idea welcomed...

I don't have any better ideas - but how about a worse one - how about
compiling the unix OSProcess plugin (and unix vm) under cygwin?
Perhaps it has never been done, but it may be fun to try.  Cygwin
supports most of the unix/posix API.