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Re: spawn question [message #60602 is a reply to message #60600]

Sun, 01 June 2008 12:25

russ[1]
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Registered: April 2008

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On 1 Jun, 19:33, Vince Hradil <hrad...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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...
>
>>>> 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
>
>>> 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.

sometimes the GET command hangs. there is a timeout option on GET
which I can't make work.

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

russ

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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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