| From: | David Lowe |
| Date: | 18 Aug 2001 at 06:23:50 |
| Subject: | Re[6]: Need help launching external programs! |
David McMinn wrote about Need help launching external programs!:
> > RKRM lists these as {input, output}, both BPTR. What possible use
> > are these?
>
> They're the input and output file handles for the program. For example,
> you could open up a new shell window for the program you are going to
> execute, you would then pass the file handle for that shell window to the
> Execute_ command.
Hmm, i might need to look into this. Normally i can just
double click the icon & it'll start [the icon is selected to start
from shell], automagically opening a shell window. So i'll need to
do this manually in using the execute_ command? The execute_ alone
produces no visible results...
David J. Lowe Member, Team Amiga
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