Hi Jano,
REBOL/Command gives you quite a lot of access to the OS (launching programs,
redirecting program output to the console, loading libraries ...). What's
wrong with paying for a program? ;-)
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Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 11:02 PM
Subject: [REBOL] Solution: Launch Programs from REBOL/View Re:(3)
> > This script implements a little telnet-client. By using this code we are
able
> > to launch programs on all computers that have telnet access!!!
>
> Oh, great...
>
> I know of many workarounds, but hey, give me break. Isn't this great that
> we can call a telnet client or do a wrap around client/server (like
> telnet, but specialized only for this purpose) for calling one single OS
> system call? This should be in REBoL. Just like the
> "open" "listen" "write" "read", these are basically system calls. We need
> "execute/spwan" and/or "fork" and have many things that we could stop
> complaining about for quite some time. I know Carl wanted to implement it
> in different way (to have task! and stuf) but this wouldn't break that
> schema, I believe...
>
> Well, whatever...
>
> Jano
>
>
>
