On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Vincent Snijders wrote:
> A.J. Venter schreef: > > > > > Nothing was changed. > > > Can you please give some sample code? It's hard to say something in > > > general. > > > > > > Note that > or | cannot be used unless you invoke the shell with a > > > commandline like > > > /bin/sh -c "your command > yourfile" > > > > > I mean when I launch the program myself on the commandline e.g. > > ./hawkstoneadmin | grep "INSERT INTO" > > > > So the piping should, in theory, have no effect on this call: > > function GetCanID:String > > Var StrList: TStringList; > > Begin > > execute ('/usr/bin/getcanid.sh',StrList) > > is '/usr/bin/getcanid.sh' an executable? Maybe you should use something like: > '/bin/sh /usr/bin/getcanid.sh' ? Even so, we don't know what happens inside getcanid.sh, and even less about hawkstoneadmin: if it expects a terminal or not. Maybe it expects std input to be available and whatnot. Michael. _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives