system command

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Dennis Malen (Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:10:33 -0500):

> 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.

If the file was empty, then you redirected nothing into it.  If it had
the word "noredraw", then you must have done something like:

    system "echo noredraw >filename"

Since you never posted the code that gave these strange results, no one
could show you what you did wrong.

You also never showed the results of placing the string that you were
passing to SYSTEM into a dummy field and placing that field on the screen,
so you could see the exact string you were executing.

> 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.

I saw very little beyond "we trid it and it didn't work".

> 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.

If you say you tried something and it didn't work, you need to show
what it was that you tried, and what the actual results were.

> 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.

Again, I don't recall seeing much beyond "it didn't work", without
showing what, exactly, you did.

> 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.

But you didn't show the exact string you needed sent, nor did you show
the exact string that your filePro code was sending.  If the string you
sent "didn't work", then what was different from the string that did
"work"?  Without that information, people can't help you.

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

If you have three files you need to output, and don't want a newline
between them, make sure the files don't contain the newlines that you
don't want.

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