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Re: SPAWN command blocked in 5.3.1 [message #33613 is a reply to message #33612]

Tue, 14 January 2003 05:31

btupper
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Registered: January 2002

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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:14:10 +0100, Harro Uwe Hieninger
<hiening@zi.biologie.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:

>
> "Is it supposed to work, (then there should be a switch that forbids it
> on my system), or NOT ( then I should forget the stuff )
>
Hello,

I use spawn quite a bit (way too much) for creating directories,
copying files, etc on Windows. It works in the situation because the
computer is married to a sonar instrument closely intergated with
Windows. I have used SPAWN successfully in this situation in IDL
versions 5.2 through 5.5.

The follwing works for me using IDL 5.3.1 on Win 98 2ed

** Structure !VERSION, 5 tags, length=40:
ARCH STRING 'x86'
OS STRING 'Win32'
OS_FAMILY STRING 'Windows'
RELEASE STRING '5.3.1'
BUILD_DATE STRING 'Feb 23 2000'
IDL> spawn, 'start netscape'

I don't want to suggest the obvious, as if you hadn't thought of it
already, but have tested your spawned command directly at the MSDOS
prompt? If it works there but not when you use the IDL 'SPAWN'
command, then you have a case for Tech Support at RSI.

Good luck,
Ben

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		Re: SPAWN command blocked in 5.3.1 By: hieninger on Tue, 14 January 2003 06:14
		Re: SPAWN command blocked in 5.3.1 By: btupper on Tue, 14 January 2003 05:31
		Re: SPAWN command blocked in 5.3.1 By: hieninger on Tue, 14 January 2003 04:19
		Re: SPAWN command blocked in 5.3.1 By: hieninger on Tue, 14 January 2003 04:14
		Re: SPAWN command blocked in 5.3.1 By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 13 January 2003 20:32
		Re: SPAWN command blocked in 5.3.1 By: wmconnolley on Mon, 13 January 2003 10:40
		Re: SPAWN command blocked in 5.3.1 By: Harro Uwe Hieninger on Mon, 13 January 2003 04:24
		Re: SPAWN command blocked in 5.3.1 By: wmconnolley on Mon, 13 January 2003 01:27
		Re: SPAWN command blocked in 5.3.1 By: A. D. & J.C. Cool on Sun, 12 January 2003 15:25

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