On May 13, 2006, at 9:57 AM, Glen Bojsza wrote:
I was wondering if anybody has used Revolution in a non-Gui
environment. I
am finding several cases where telecom vendors don't support a
windowing
system on their linux products, only the command line. I believe that
Metacard use to be able
Hello everyone,
I was wondering if anybody has used Revolution in a non-Gui enviroment. I
am finding several cases where telecom vendors don't support a windowing
system on their linux products, only the command line. I believe that
Metacard use to be able to run in this type of enviroment and
I was wondering if anybody has used Revolution in a non-Gui enviroment. I
I can't see why not. I haven't done it exactly in an app, but I use
command-mode every day in the message box to test code snippets
commands and functions. Your entire command line project could be a
field on a card
Hi Glen,
I am working on a command line utility for Revolution. In fact,
Metacard used to be a fully functional command line utility in
itself, but this wonderful feature is definitely broken with the new
file format. Additionally, it is no longer possible to run stacks the
same way you
Mark Schonewille wrote:
In fact, Metacard used to be a fully functional command line utility
in itself, but this wonderful feature is definitely broken with the
new file format.
What specifically changed in the file format that prevents faceless use?
What are the symptoms?
Additionally, it
I didn't say that one can no longer use Revolution as a faceless
application, Richard. Rev stacks used to be shell scripts in
themselves, which is no longer the case as of Rev 2.7.0.
This has nothing to do with the CGI engine, though. For CGI, I
recommend the non-cgi Linux 2.0 engine. The
Mark Schonewille wrote:
I didn't say that one can no longer use Revolution as a faceless
application, Richard. Rev stacks used to be shell scripts in
themselves, which is no longer the case as of Rev 2.7.0.
I must be slow on the uptake today, so bear with me, but AKAIK stack
files were
Hi Richard,
When you look at the beginning of a MetaCard file, you see a few
shell commands. Actually, a path, 3 comments and a shell command. It
tells the shell to start the MetaCard executable !/bin/sh/mc if you
have that installed.
This is different in the new stack file format, which
Mark Schonewille wrote:
When you look at the beginning of a MetaCard file, you see a few
shell commands. Actually, a path, 3 comments and a shell command. It
tells the shell to start the MetaCard executable !/bin/sh/mc if you
have that installed.
Specifically:
#!/bin/sh
# MetaCard
