system command

[Dennis Malen]

Ken,

We did respond to each suggestion. For example, when various people 
suggested to use a redirect to see what we were dealing with we could only 
respond that nothing was in the file when we did it, or sometimes we got 
only the word noredraw.

We attempted to respond to each suggestion as we were very concerned that if 
we did not respond then the list would stop providing suggestion. In the end 
it turned out that way anyway.

We got one person very upset and everyone jumped on us. We also knew how 
sensitive people would be if we did not respond specifically so we attempted 
to do so the best we could.

I also believe that the people who felt they had found the problem were 
turned off when it failed to provide the answer on our system. We were 
attempting to execute a TinyTerm file and what some saw as he answer was in 
fact not the answer for our needs, which we attempted to communicate. The 
closest anyone got was Mark. Even though he thought that his was the 
solution it turned out for us to be a time consuming and frustrating 
exercise. He indeed was the closest to the answer. He solved one part of the 
puzzle and system command in it's executing the line unfortunately made 
other changes that were not clearly identifiable for us to communicate back 
to the list.

We still have our open question on our new approach. If you prefer not to 
answer I will understand.

Thanks anyway.

Regards,

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 6:46 PM
Subject: Re: system command


> Quoting Dennis Malen (Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:05:16 -0500):
>
>> Bob,
>>
>> I can get the script to come through correctly when displayed but not
>> through the system command. I don't know if the fact that I am on AIX
>> makes a difference. I am not the only one in the office working on this
>> problem. Three others have attempted to use all the suggestions of the
>> list but to no avail.
>
> What, exactly, did they try, and what didn't work?  And, what about
> the suggestions that were not "solutions", but rather questions to
> help determine what is the problem?
>
>> Others on the list have commented they can't
>> figure out why there needs to be an adjustment even on their own systems.
>>
>> After all the suggestions I am attempting a work around which everyone
>> is now upset that I am doing.
>
> People aren't "upset" because you're trying to come up with a
> workaround.  They're "upset" because you feel the need to come
> up with a workaround to a problem which you haven't tried to
> solve, or even define properly.
>
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