At 19:25 -0400 2007/05/23, Raul Miller wrote:
On 5/23/07, kamakura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is it possible to evoke other applications from J like imagemagick
utility or unix shell application?
Yes, but at the moment the techniques are not portable across
operating systems.
For unix, use the 2!: family of conjunctions but for windows, use
spawn as defined require'task'.
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Raul
In Unix/Linux/Darwin I find the following 2!: cover convenient/essential
host =: [: 2!:0 '(' , ' || true)' ,~ ]
Originally suggested by Martin Neiztel.
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