> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Madsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: December 20, 2007 10:47 AM
> To: Jim Van Meggelen
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Playing back files from a folder 
> based on a filespec
> 
> On Dec 15, 2007 4:01 PM, Jim Van Meggelen 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would have thought that System() just passed whatever it 
> got to the 
> > shell, so I would have figured that as long as the shell 
> can handle it, no problem.
> >
> > The big limitation with System() is that it does not feed 
> stdout and 
> > stderr back to asterisk.
> >
> > Hmm . . . that gives me an idea . . .
> 
> That's right -- you need to use the SHELL() function to do 
> that. It's only available in trunk, but I just copied the 
> func_shell.c file into my funcs/ directory, did a ./configure 
> && make install, and it compiled and was available for my use.

That sounds like a worthy function. I am looking forward to using it (once
it's out of beta ;-)

That could work well when AGI is too much. I wonder how the two compare,
performance-wise, when doing similar things.

Jim


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