Chris, Thanks for the credit - and I'm glad to see that hostcmd_j_ is commonly available.
But, to be fair, I plagiarized the definition from Martin Neitzel more than 23 years ago... My servers invoke it many thousands of times a day in various monitoring scripts - and I use it often in CLI sessions as well. I like the fact that it always returns a result (as well as echoing stderr output to my CLI session), which desire is what Martin responded to all those years ago. - joey > On 2017Nov 25, at 12:14, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: > > hostcmd_j_ is Joey's cover for 2!:0, e.g. see > www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2017-April/047204.html > > On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 12:06 PM, J. Patrick Harrington <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Sorry, I meant "returning with no screen output' >> I am now running the full program with hostcmd_j_ for 2!:0. >> It's chugging away, hasn't failed yet. :-) >> >> >> On Sat, 25 Nov 2017, J. Patrick Harrington wrote: >> >>> Chris, >>> >>> That test works. I just tried >>> >>> hostcmd_j_ '../synmod.exe < fort.5 >fort.6' >>> >>> and that works as well, returning with screen output, and writing >>> successfully to fort.6. So hostcmd_j_ ~: 2!:0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
