I've just tried firing up a spreadsheet from J, and appear to find that
J has to wait for
the spreadsheet to be closed before the JQT terminal session can proceed.
Specifically, if I enter the following from the terminal:
shell_jtask_ 'c:/d/j901/user/temp/test1.ods' NB. Open Office
document
the cursor hangs at that line until I close the spreadsheet cleanly or
messily using
taskmaster.
Odd perhaps, as shell is a cover for spawn:
''&$: :(spawn ('cmd /c ' , ]))
and MSDOS help tells me that cmd/c terminates:
"
C:\Windows\System32>cmd/?
Starts a new instance of the Windows command interpreter
CMD [/A | /U] [/Q] [/D] [/E:ON | /E:OFF] [/F:ON | /F:OFF] [/V:ON | /V:OFF]
[[/S] [/C | /K] string]
/C Carries out the command specified by string and then terminates
"
Not too important for me - just puzzling.
Thanks,
Mike
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