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Re: spawn question [message #60603 is a reply to message #60602]

Sun, 01 June 2008 11:33

Vince Hradil
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Registered: December 1999

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On Jun 1, 1:09 pm, russ <rlaybe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 31 May, 17:21, Vince Hradil <hrad...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> On May 31, 5:20 am, russ <rlaybe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> this may be a tupid question and it might be that i am an idiot,
>>> but...
>
>>> i want to spawn a process
>
>>> cmd='ls -l'
>>> spawn,cmd
>
>>> i am actually doing this with a GET command and it sometimes hangs
>
>>> if i try
>
>>> spawn,cmd,/nowait
>
>>> it tells me
>
>>> Keyword NOWAIT not allowed in call to: SPAWN
>
>>> but it says it is in the help?
>
>>> any ideas?
>
>>> thanks
>
>>> russ
>
>> Your using the GET command? So what exactly are you spawning?- Hide quoted text -
>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> I'm spawning
>
> cmd='GEThttp://www.etc> outfile.txt'
> spawn,cmd
>
> to get a webpage into a filer which then i can read

Now I'm confused - and I'm no expert on this, but don't you have to
have some kind of http connection to run a "GET" command? The OS
won't know what to do with "GET" (unless you have some program called
GET that opens a connection and executes a GET).

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		Re: spawn question By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Mon, 02 June 2008 06:48
		Re: spawn question By: Vince Hradil on Sun, 01 June 2008 15:41
		Re: spawn question By: russ[1] on Sun, 01 June 2008 12:25
		Re: spawn question By: Vince Hradil on Sun, 01 June 2008 11:33
		Re: spawn question By: russ[1] on Sun, 01 June 2008 11:09
		Re: spawn question By: Vince Hradil on Sat, 31 May 2008 09:21
		Re: spawn question By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Sat, 31 May 2008 04:59

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