| Re: spawn question [message #60600 is a reply to message #60590] |
Sun, 01 June 2008 15:41   |
Vince Hradil
Messages: 574
Registered: December 1999
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On Jun 1, 2:25 pm, russ <rlaybe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 Jun, 19:33, Vince Hradil <hrad...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> On Jun 1, 1:09 pm, russ <rlaybe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 31 May, 17:21, Vince Hradil <hrad...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>> On May 31, 5:20 am, russ <rlaybe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> > this may be a tupid question and it might be that i am an idiot,
>>>> > but...
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>>>> > i want to spawn a process
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>>>> > cmd='ls -l'
>>>> > spawn,cmd
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>>>> > i am actually doing this with a GET command and it sometimes hangs
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>>>> > if i try
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>>>> > spawn,cmd,/nowait
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>>>> > it tells me
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>>>> > Keyword NOWAIT not allowed in call to: SPAWN
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>>>> > but it says it is in the help?
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>>>> > any ideas?
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>>>> > thanks
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>>>> > russ
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>>>> Your using the GET command? So what exactly are you spawning?- Hide quoted text -
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>>>> - Show quoted text -
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>>> I'm spawning
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>>> cmd='GEThttp://www.etc> outfile.txt'
>>> spawn,cmd
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>>> to get a webpage into a filer which then i can read
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>> 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).- Hide quoted text -
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> sorry if i'm not being clear. the GET command gets the contents of a
> website and the > operator puts it in a file which i subsequently
> read.
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> sometimes the GET command hangs. there is a timeout option on GET
> which I can't make work.
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> i think i will just ask if the file has been created and if it hasnt
> after sometime, kill the GET command and do another one with a
> different http site
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> russ
Yes, but GET is not an OS command. You need to have a stream from
which to GET the data? Maybe I'm wrong, like I said, I don't really
understand the whole thing. But if I type "GET http://www.yahoo.com"
at the command prompt, my OS says - "unknown command: GET" or
something like that.
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