system command

[Fairlight]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:11:38PM -0500, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
Dennis Malen cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
> Mark,
> 
> I just got in to the office. I did test it late last night from home. Just 
> so you know, when I piped it to the file - if I used echo and then the line, 
> the file would be empty. If I used "echo noredraw"  and the rest of the line 
> it would place only the word noredraw in the file.

Funny...  When I used your -exact- code in @once processing and simply
appended the " >/tmp/dennistest" to it, I got a populated file that showed
me the exact problem.

Note the word "redirected" -not- "piped".  You can't pipe to a file unless
it's a FIFO node.  Let's keep this clear by keeping the nomenclature to
standard terms, if you want help fixing it ASAP.

> That being said I will try your suggestion now. It's frustrating because 
> msgbox confirmed the output  visually was correct, but obviously it was not 
> sending it anywhere.

Is it even -reaching- the SYSTEM call line?  Have you actually tried this
with the debugger, or are you having us do your work for you?  I mean,
a little syntactic issue in getting the correct string format aside, it
-does- produce output in @once when I tested it with an added redirect, and
should do the same on your system--assuming the line is even being reached.
Due diligence.

mark->