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Re: Getting File creation data/time [message #14692]

Tue, 23 March 1999 00:00

Armand J. L. Jongen is currently offline

Armand J. L. Jongen
Messages: 9
Registered: April 1997

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Phillip & Suzanne David wrote:
>
> Try this:
>
> FileName=Dialog_pickfile(/read)
>
> ; Pipeline the output of the dir command to a file
>
> DOSCommand='dir "'+FileName+'"' ; Add quotes around the file name

Briljant! It does the trick..... only:

> Spawn, DosCommand, Result ; You don't have to send the results to a
> file. They get sent back in 'Result'

doesn't work on a Window$ machine as also mentioned in the help files:

; IDLHELP***************************************************** *******
Result

A named variable in which to place the output from the child process.
Each line of output becomes a single array element. If Result is not
present, the output from the child shell process goes to the standard
output.

Under Windows and the Macintosh OS, Result has no effect.
; IDLHELP***************************************************** *******

But then I can use the temp-file trick.

Thanks,

Armand

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