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Re: Spawn and Parallels [message #62349 is a reply to message #62348]

Fri, 05 September 2008 06:23

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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JMZawodny@gmail.com writes:
> I have a Mac running both OS X and Windows XP at the same time via
> Parallels Desktop for Mac. I hate the way IDL works/looks/requiresX11
> under OS X so I run IDL in a virtual machine with Windows XP.
> Unfortunately, my current project requires that I SPAWN a process
> under OS X (windows version of the software is not available). So, my
> idea is to use SPAWN to launch terminal.app with the UNIT keyword and
> use WRITEU to send commands to run the unix program. I can get SPAWN
> to launch a terminal window under OS X, but I can't write a command
> via the unit without IDL reporting that the pipe is broken and the
> process being shut down. The terminal process does not terminate
> though. I had to use the NOSHELL keyword to get the terminal process
> to spawn.
>
> So, I'm looking for either a fix or an alternative way to launch a
> command line program on the unix side. Since I need to vary the

I'm not sure why you need to launch a Terminal, couldn't you just
SPAWN it directly?

If not, could you use AppleScript commands ("osascript") in order to
remotely control Terminal?

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		Re: Spawn and Parallels By: Michael Galloy on Fri, 05 September 2008 08:19
		Re: Spawn and Parallels By: JMZawodny on Fri, 05 September 2008 07:59
		Re: Spawn and Parallels By: mankoff on Fri, 05 September 2008 06:33
		Re: Spawn and Parallels By: pgrigis on Fri, 05 September 2008 06:24
		Re: Spawn and Parallels By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 05 September 2008 06:23
		Re: Spawn and Parallels By: mankoff on Fri, 05 September 2008 05:36

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