On Saturday, September 6, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Brian K. Maher wrote:
Hi Alex,
Thanks. That was it. I am a newbie at Revolution and misread the documentation for the shell function (it shows just using shell(...) and also states that the result (combination of stdout & stderr) are placed into the result variable). Based on this I expected to be able to simply say shell(...) followed by some code that checked the result variable.
The example code is not always complete, often it's just code snippets.
In Rev 2.1 the shell function in the transcript dictionary says "the result" is set to the command's exit code, which is probably going to be 0 or 1, not the actual stdout of the command.
But I understand what you mean about learning revolution: sometimes you have to check "it", sometimes check "the result" and sometimes pass variable to get the value into, and sometimes get a value back directly :-)
Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com
what a waste of thumbs that are opposable to make machines that are disposable -Ani DiFranco
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