system command

[Dennis Malen]

Ken,

I did respond by saying the noredraw just showed the word noredraw.

In any event your last paragraph will probaly solve my problem, although I 
will still continue with the initial request as John Esak has gotten 
involved.

Dennis
----- 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 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: system command


> 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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