On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 01:08:47PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote:
> If what you meant was to provide a small facility to allow the
> "safe" script constructs, sure we could do that. We already showed
> the way with the script for the external date inset which uses
> a general Python script as a wrapper for commands that want to
> pipe input and output somewhere, i.e. to similate some of the
> shell facilities.
> It would be fairly trivial to extend this script to support ;'s
> for command separation. You are welcome to do this, if you want to.
Why not have support for ";" in the external figure code?
(i.e. define UpdateCommand as "cmd1 parameters;cmd2 parameters;..." )
This will save a call to python.
