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Re: Help with Spawn [message #61482 is a reply to message #42260]

Fri, 18 July 2008 07:17

Vince Hradil
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On Jul 18, 8:48 am, "Jeff N." <jeffnettles4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 18, 7:23 am, alex...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody. My question is simple, yet I haven't found a
>> satisfying answer in the various guides.
>
>> I'm using spawn to call for an executable file under the Windows OS,
>> it oppens a command window and executes there. The problem is, very
>> quickly I get an error and the entire command shell closes
>> momentarily. I'd want to be able to see the error it presents before
>> closing the shell, or just leave it open.
>
>> Is this possible? Is there any other way around it?
>
>> Thanks a lot for any help, Alex
>
> Another trick i do a lot is just print out the command that you're
> going to spawn using a print statement, then open up your own command
> window and paste in that command. The command shell isn't going to
> close when you do that, and I often find it's easier to fix whatever
> mistakes i've made with the command i'm trying to issue in the actual
> command window then go back to my IDL program and make sure it spawns
> the fixed command.
>
> Jeff

How about using the LOG_OUTPUT keyword? Simple is good...

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		Help with SPAWN By: Marc Reinig on Fri, 21 January 2005 17:27
		Re: Help with Spawn By: Vince Hradil on Fri, 18 July 2008 07:17
		Re: Help with Spawn By: alexbaz on Sat, 19 July 2008 09:41
		Re: Help with Spawn By: jeffnettles4870 on Fri, 18 July 2008 10:24
		Re: Help with Spawn By: jeffnettles4870 on Fri, 18 July 2008 06:48
		Re: Help with Spawn By: Andrew Cool on Fri, 18 July 2008 06:06
		Re: Help with Spawn By: jeffnettles4870 on Sat, 19 July 2008 12:53
		Re: Help with Spawn By: Vince Hradil on Sat, 19 July 2008 06:22
		Re: Help with Spawn By: jeffnettles4870 on Fri, 18 July 2008 17:37
		Re: Help with Spawn By: Vince Hradil on Fri, 18 July 2008 10:46

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