System "wget"command

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 02:41:21PM -0500, Mike Schwartz wrote:
> > best:
> > video off ; system sa ; video on
> > 
> > less good:
> > system sa ; video sync
> 
>      Thanks, Brian, but neither seems to work.  There must be some other
> Unix mechanism kicking in to splash the screen.  

Sure: video off only -- unless I am very much mistaken -- tells filePro
not to write on the screen itself.

You need to put ">/dev/null 2>&1" at the end of your system command.

Cheers,
-- jra
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