Sorting filePro Arrays

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 08:42:29PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> > The file "sorted.tmp" is created, but doen't contain the redirected
> > output of SORT.

Wow.  I misread that; you're *getting* the file, but no contents? 

Odd.

> > Can anyone offer any suggestions?
> 
> Yeah, I -think- I have a sane one.  Use 'start' as a prefix for the whole
> command.  Redirection is kind of funky in Windows, as it's reliant on the
> command interpreter--which start will invoke.  If you do a straight
> system() call, redirects tend not to work.  I think another part of the API
> is used for that inside fP.

I might be wrong, but I thought that SYSTEM *did* *explicitly* call
the command interpreter, and (separately) that it was the programs
themselves that did redirection, similarly to how they do command line
parsing themselves.

No?

> If 'start' prepended to the command actually works, then you're going to
> get a secondary window in the interim while it "forks off" (asynchronously,
> of course).  You can suppress that with one of the flags to start.  I
> believe it's /B.  The start command has its own help, so it's not hard to
> find.

Sure, but how would he then *wait* for it to finish?

Cheers,
-- jra
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