Hi Devon, Yes, I actually worked with that first.
Unfortunately, the production system is running on J504. I tried making it work but failed. Hence the change of tactics. Thanks anyways. r/Alex ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Devon McCormick [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 10:09 PM To: Programming forum Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Spawning Process in Windows Also, there's "zip" addons: arc/ziptrees and arc/zip/zfiles'. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Alex Rufon <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > This is a bit embarrassing but I'm a bit lost navigating the J Software > website. > > You see, I need to execute a command line application from a J session and > I found this area in the J website: > http://www.jsoftware.com/help/user/script_task.htm > It describes the verbs "task", "spawn" and "fork" which are exactly what I > need. Unfortunately, I can't find any reference on where the source files > are. > > An additional constraint is that my project is using J 504. > > Either way, what I am actually doing is trying to run execute "unzip.exe" > from inside a J session (in Windows 2000 Advance Server) which I got from > here: http://stahlworks.com/dev/index.php?tool=zipunzip > The text file being sent to J has got around to 16MB (which is not a > problem with J) and the web server is chocking and cuts off the web upload > hence my J app is not receiving the file. My current solution is to zip the > file from the client side and J would just automatically unzip the file then > process it normally as it spawned. > > I'll still comb the net (and the jsoftware site) for solutions but any help > is appreciated. > > Thanks. > > r/Alex > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
