RE: Multiple shell commands

2004-11-22 Thread MisterX
thread with the "start" dos command... type start /? in c:\ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Bruce Robertson > Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 20:12 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], How to use Revolution &

Re: Multiple shell commands

2004-11-22 Thread Bruce Robertson
> > PHP remains a web thing alas... And RunRev lacks the threaded execution... Nope. It's accessible from the command line. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Multiple shell commands

2004-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/7/04 2:00 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On 11/7/04 12:12 AM, "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/6/04 10:44 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Am I correct, then, that it isn't possible to send multiple commands with the shell() function? It would be cleaner if we could. Seems like we should be able

Re: Multiple shell commands

2004-11-07 Thread Andre Garzia
Since I almost replaced my MacOS X Gui for Revolution, almost all my work is done inside the IDE or with the IDE open in parallel. I find amusing that I have, don't know, maybe 500 megabytes of source code here, lot's of interconnected stacks, and I never build standalones. I like my stacks sha

RE: Multiple shell commands

2004-11-07 Thread MisterX
00 > To: Use Revolution List > Subject: Re: Multiple shell commands > > On 11/7/04 12:12 AM, "J. Landman Gay" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 11/6/04 10:44 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > > Am I correct, then, that it isn't possible to sen

RE: Multiple shell commands

2004-11-07 Thread MisterX
No need for \\. Paste in msg: shell("dir /s /o=n c:\win*") -- and type return! > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Frank Leahy > Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 13:37 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subje

Re: Multiple shell commands

2004-11-07 Thread Ken Ray
On 11/7/04 12:12 AM, "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/6/04 10:44 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Am I correct, then, that it isn't possible to send multiple commands > with the shell() function? It would be cleaner if we could. Seems like > we should be able to. I may mess around with

Re: Multiple shell commands

2004-11-07 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 7, 2004, at 4:12 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Thanks Mark, and Xavier too. This method works fine, and I can easily create a file on the fly and execute it. Cool. Am I correct, then, that it isn't possible to send multiple commands with the shell() function? It would be cleaner if we could.

Re: Multiple shell commands

2004-11-07 Thread Frank Leahy
On Nov 7, 2004, at 2:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was part of my question; I can't seem to get those formatted correctly. When I add quotes around each of the paths, Windows says there are too many parameters. Any chance you need to double-up the last backslash, or maybe all the backslas

RE: Multiple shell commands

2004-11-07 Thread MisterX
gt; From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > J. Landman Gay > Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 07:12 > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: Re: Multiple shell commands > > On 11/6/04 10:44 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > > Jacque- > > > >

Re: Multiple shell commands

2004-11-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/6/04 10:44 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Saturday, November 6, 2004, 9:00:52 AM, you wrote: JLG> Anyone know how to do this? create a test.bat file with the contents: cd "C:\Program Files\Conversion Software\w32-rbmake-1.1\" rbMake -ebjTs -otest "C:\Program Files\Conversion Software\README.t

Re: Multiple shell commands

2004-11-06 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Saturday, November 6, 2004, 9:00:52 AM, you wrote: JLG> Anyone know how to do this? create a test.bat file with the contents: cd "C:\Program Files\Conversion Software\w32-rbmake-1.1\" rbMake -ebjTs -otest "C:\Program Files\Conversion Software\README.txt" then from your script issue the

RE: Multiple shell commands

2004-11-06 Thread MisterX
> - as a last rescue, you could write the two commands > to > a temporary batch file, and then execute that file > > That sounds promising. How is that done? Put the batch in a text file named whatever.bat Then get shell("c:\whatever.bat") More about it in my next mail __

Re: Multiple shell commands

2004-11-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/6/04 11:33 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote: > --- "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I want to send two commands to a command-line app >>using shell() on >>Win98. The first needs to change directories, and >>then I need to issue a >>command to a DOS app. Both of these work okay if I >>typ

Re: Multiple shell commands

2004-11-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/6/04 3:49 PM, MisterX wrote: Jacque, - Make sure the directory is set to an existing drive first. Thanks to both you and Jan for responding. I'm not sure if you mean Rev's directory or the shell's. The whole process takes place on the C drive. But I do need to instruct Windows to move to th

RE: Multiple shell commands

2004-11-06 Thread MisterX
m... Otherwise your command looks good! Xavier > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jan Schenkel > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 18:33 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; How to use Revolution > Subject: Re: Multiple shell

Re: Multiple shell commands

2004-11-06 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to send two commands to a command-line app > using shell() on > Win98. The first needs to change directories, and > then I need to issue a > command to a DOS app. Both of these work okay if I > type them into the > DOS prompt window. > >

Multiple shell commands

2004-11-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
I want to send two commands to a command-line app using shell() on Win98. The first needs to change directories, and then I need to issue a command to a DOS app. Both of these work okay if I type them into the DOS prompt window. When I try to send them via shell() it always fails with "too many