RISCOS "free" system call

[Phillip Marsden]

Apologies if this has been covered before, but I am a new subscriber, and have not yet got all the FAQ etc.

I wish to get the amount of free space on a floppy for a copy program which is working from a web page. Not having used Perl modules, I decided to use the RISC OS "free" command via the system function. The "free" command sends its output to screen, so I redirected it to a file in order to capture the output. This works fine (after a little help from several people). Unfortunately once the screen output is redirected, any further messages from Perl (including the tail-end of the HTML on the page) are sent to a task window, not the Web page. Without the redirection of the system call output, the perl script returns all output to the web page as expected.

There are two questions.

1. Is it possible to return the screen output to the webpage?
2. Could anyone show me the way to do this with Perl modules? I assume that there are file-handling and disk-handling functions for RISC OS in these modules.

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Regards, Phillip Marsden.

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