[announcement] Windows gVim user can do wget without a flashing DOS box

When gVim.exe is used on Microsoft Windows and an external program
is called, a flashing DOS box displaying on Windows status bar is
a constant pain.

It is getting worse when system() call if frequently used, as we
found while working on VimIM plugin, in which every single keyboard
type may be sent to "input Cloud", if user sets that option.

The workaround, as we found, is to use lib call instead. To make it
happen, a special Windows DLL is created:
http://vimim.googlecode.com/svn/mycloud/client/libvimim.dll

The source code is also made available at
http://vimim.googlecode.com/svn/mycloud/

Basically, it can be used to replace any system("wget " ...) call from
within gVim.

Welcome to share more ideas to make Microsoft Windows really
useful. :)

Thanks

Sean

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