(Subject: repaired from "Digest".)
On Nov 20, 2012, at 08:51, John P. Hartmann wrote:
>
> HFSEXECUTE was added twenty years ago.
>
The Author's edition lists 11 specific HFSXECUTE subcommands:
chdir, chmod, link, mkdir, mkfifo, rename, rmdir, symlink, umask,
unlink, and utime
None of these is the sort of filter Rick was hoping for. In
fact none of then uses an input descriptor/connector. Now if
there were a "sh" subcommand, I suspect Rick would be elated.
But:
Notes:
• Shell variables are not expanded; hfsxecute does not run
in the OpenExtensions environment.
This doesn't sound very promising.
> On 20 November 2012 16:30, Rick Troth <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It would be really nifty to have a Pipelines stage that wraps OpenVM
>> commands. So many of them are filters, and a lot of shell scripts
>> customers and users create are filters, that this would be *really*
>> handy.
-- gil
