OpenEuphoria

Re: system/system_exec problem

• Posted by irvm at ellijay.com Jun 17, 2003
• 492 views

On Tuesday 17 June 2003 01:09 pm, jbrown wrote:

> Strange. If anything, it sounds like a flaw in the way KDE handles the
> running of apps from the icon.
>
> Try the following program at the bottom of this email, it bypasses the Eu
> routine and goes straight into glibc ... if this program also hangs, then
> its not a bug in Eu.

Thanks, I give it a try. I already tried:

#!/usr/bin/perl
system("ls > DIRECTORY");

Which works fine from the icon (or cmd line)

#!/usr/bin/python
import os
os.system("ls > DIRECTORY")

Also works fine from the icon (or cmd line)

> P.S. Are you sure the redirection works in the command line? The docs say
> that redirection is not possible in system_exec(), but that might only
> apply to DOS/Win.

Yes. It works every time from the command line or from an xterm.
It even works from the icon IF you tell KDE to "run this in a terminal".
But, of course, that pops up an xterm window, with a "press enter" 
message, which is what I am trying to avoid. And after you tell KDE 
to run euphoria executables in a terminal, it pops up an xterm for every 
euphoria GUI progarm, most of which neither need nor want a terminal.

Regards,
Irv