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Re: Path pitfalls....

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Nov 26, 2002
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Why are you forced to do this in a Windows environment? Can't you do it in 
DOS?

You could write the Eu program as a DOS program and wrap it in a .BAT file.

I suppose I'm not sure about how the whole thing gets kicked off.


On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:01:29 +1100, <Patrick.Barnes at transgrid.com.au> wrote:

>
> No dice, it IS the "> bin\\export1.html" that's the problem.
>
> Also, does the program halt until the shellExecute is finished? If it 
> doesn't, then that is going to cause problems too.
>
> Qs:
> ---
>
> 1. How to redirect stdout in the windows environment?
>
> 2. How to make the eu program wait until php.exe is finished?
>
>
> ==============================================
> _______<-------------------\__
> /  _____<--------------------__|===
> | |_    <-------------------/
> \__| Patrick Barnes
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Parnell [mailto:ddparnell at bigpond.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 26 November 2002 10:51
> To: EUforum
> Subject: Re: Path pitfalls....
>
>
> Try using shellExecuteEx instead...
>
> shellExecuteEx( object verb, sequence file, object parms,
> object defdir, atom style, atom struct)
>
> shellExecute("open", "bin\\php.exe > bin\\export1.html", "bin\\Cat.php", 
> 0, SW_SHOWNORMAL, 0)
>
> Or maybe its the stdout redirection causing it.
>
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:02:54 +1100, <Patrick.Barnes at transgrid.com.au> 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Damn, and I thought I'd figured it out, too.
>>
>> I got rid of all my system calls, and used shellExecute, but it didn't quite 
>> work. No doubt I'm making a mistake somewhere.
>>
>> This is my code for one php file.
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>> --run the php script Cat, and output the results into export.html
>> shellExecute("open", "bin\\php.exe bin\\Cat.php > bin\\export1.html",
>> SW_SHOWNORMAL)
>>
>> --open export.html as read, and the other two files as write.
>> s = open("BIN\\export1.html","r")
>> d1 = open("Tier 3 Apps by Category.html","w")
>> d2 = open("Tier_3_Apps_by_Category.asp","w")
>>
>> --strip out the top two lines.
>> line = gets(s)
>> line = gets(s)
>>
>> --Copy the rest across to the destination files
>> --read a line in.
>> line = gets(s)
>> while sequence(line) do --while the source file does not end...
>> 	puts(d1, line) --output that line to d1
>> 	puts(d2, line) --and d2
>> 	line = gets(s) --and get a new line
>> end while
>>
>> --close those files
>> close(s)
>> close(d1)
>> close(d2)
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>> The other half of the program is almost identical.
>> I thought it was working fine, but it turns out that the shellExecute command
>>
>> doesn't do anything. What am I doing wrong?
>> =======================
>> Patrick Barnes
>> Information Systems Group
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>> Patrick.Barnes at tg.nsw.gov.au
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Derek Parnell [mailto:ddparnell at bigpond.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, 26 November 2002 09:07
>> To: EUforum
>> Subject: Re: Path pitfalls....
>>
>>
>> Patrick,
>> I did some quick research and discovered that even though the API docs say 
>> you need a parent window, you can get by with out one for shellExecute. 
>> So if you'd like to do a small mod on the win32lib.ew file....
>>
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cheers,
Derek Parnell