A reason for not writing to a file might be that something could go wrong
before the file gets deleted. I didn't have performance in mind. Compare it
with outtrap in the mainframe environment if you are familiar with that,
which catches the output from a command and places it in a stem variable.
Staffan
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Mark Miesfeld <miesf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Rick McGuire <object.r...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Staffan Tylen <staffan.ty...@gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I think I need help understanding the use of the Monitor class. Reading
> >> the documentation it seems like a monitor 'destination' is/should be a
> >> .Stream object, is this correct? What I'm after is a way to catch the
> output
> >> from a shell command into for example an .array or a .queue object
> where I
> >> can manipulate it. I don't want it written to a file. Can this be done?
>
> Rick is right about rxqueue. But I wonder what you have against
> writing to a file?
>
> It works extremely well. And, unlike using rxqueue, you can capture
> the return code from whatever shell command you use. If you write a
> class to do the work, once you get the class written, it can be very
> easy to use.
>
> I use to think redirecting to a file would be too slow. But, after
> using that technique in a big application I saw that it wasn't slow at
> all. As long as you take care to always delete the temporary file you
> write to, it makes a very clean solution.
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
>
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