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2. Re: question catching system message

• Posted by don cole <doncole at p?cbell?net> Aug 11, 2007
• 629 views

Salix wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to catch the reply of system() under Win32?
> The following is incorrect sytax but that's what I mean:
> }}}
<eucode>
> sequence sx
> sx=system("dir *.txt",2)
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> Currently the only way I can do it is this
> }}}
<eucode>
> sequence sx
> system("dir *.txt > temp.txt",2)
> sx=read_file("temp.txt")
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> Any tips?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Salix

Hello Salix,

Try system_exec(). Read the docs on it.

Don Cole

4. Re: question catching system message

• Posted by Salix <salix at fr?em?il.hu> Aug 11, 2007
• 598 views

> > Hello Salix,
> > 
> > Try system_exec(). Read the docs on it.
> > 
> 
> Not good without some work, said docs explicitly state this:

That's right. As well as I understand system_exec() returns 
an integer. I want to catch the text that is returned by 
the programme.

Regards,

Salix

6. Re: question catching system message

• Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.?e?> Aug 11, 2007
• 602 views
• Last edited Aug 12, 2007

CChris wrote:
> 
> don cole wrote:
> > 
> > Salix wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is there a way to catch the reply of system() under Win32?
> > > The following is incorrect sytax but that's what I mean:
> > > }}}
<eucode>
> > > sequence sx
> > > sx=system("dir *.txt",2)
> > > </eucode>
{{{

> > > 
> > > Currently the only way I can do it is this
> > > }}}
<eucode>
> > > sequence sx
> > > system("dir *.txt > temp.txt",2)
> > > sx=read_file("temp.txt")
> > > </eucode>
{{{

> > > 
> > > Any tips?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Salix
> > 
> > Hello Salix,
> > 
> > Try system_exec(). Read the docs on it.
> > 
> > Don Cole
> 
> Not good without some work, said docs explicitly state this:
> 
> On DOS32 or WIN32, system_exec() will only run .exe and .com programs. To run
> .bat files, or built-in DOS commands, you need system(). Some commands, such
> as DEL, are not programs, they are actually built-in to the command
> interpreter.
> 
> 
> If you have an external command called dir.com, system_exec() will work for
> you.
> What you can do for internal commands is this
> }}}
<eucode>?system_exec("command.com /c dir *.txt",2)</eucode>
{{{

> command.com is an external program, and the /C switch instructs it to execute
> the remainder of string and return status code. command.com will be done in
> a secondary DOS shell.
> Under Windows, use cmd.exe rather than command.com if it is available.
> 
> HTH
> CChris

CChirs,

Why couldn't you write a little program.

system("dir *.txt",2)

 ,bind it and call it myprog1.exe.

Then run }}}
<eucode> il=system_exec("myprog1.exe",2)</eucode>
{{{


Salix, 

This indeed would return an integer.

If you want a text report how about,

<eucode?

fn=open("myreport.txt")

d=dir(mydir)

for x= 1 to length(d) do
  puts(fn,d[x])
end for

close(fn)

</eucode>
{{{


I don't know exactly what info you want to obtain.

Just an idea.

This is untested.

Don Cole

8. Re: question catching system message

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agri?ulture.gouv.f?> Aug 11, 2007
• 592 views
• Last edited Aug 12, 2007

Salix wrote:
> 
> jacques deschênes wrote:
> > 
> > what's wrong this method its simple and effective.
> > You can also do
> > system("dir *.txt > temp.txt 2> error.txt",2)
> 
> There's nothing wrong with it. It saves the output I want into a temp file.
> But later I need to open that file, collect its content, and delete it 
> afterwards.
> 
> But to collect the output directly into an Euphoria object would be simplier
> and even more effective.
> 
> (But I can live without it.)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Salix

The text of the dir output is not returned, it is... simply written to a device,
possibly redirected.
If you use a RAM disk, then perhaps you can make DOS write to some area of
memory which it would think to be a file, and you'd peek that area. That's all I
can see.
Or - let's be fancy - make a TSR that trap DOS output to console, and have the
TSR communicate with your program using some interrupt.

CChris