| From: | Nick Clover |
| Date: | 18 Aug 2001 at 12:49:56 |
| Subject: | Re: Need help launching external programs! |
Hello David
On 18-Aug-01, you wrote:
> 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...
Try something like this:
cmd.s="C:DMS write "+filename2+" TO "+disk+":"+Chr$(10)+"wait 2"+Chr$(10)+"Endcli"
cli$="con:0/0/640/200/VF2000 - UnDMS/CLOSE"
If WriteFile(0,cli$)
Execute_ &cmd,Peek.l(Addr File(0)),0
CloseFile 0
changed=True
EndIf
Regards
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