Need help with user command

[Paul]

I did get stdin to work with user
I will post an example for future reference

McNary


On 6/27/2014 6:26 PM, Paul McNary wrote:
> On 6/27/2014 6:20 PM, Fairlight wrote:
>> As I recall it from memory, USER commands cannot be variable-oriented, and
>> must be static commands.  You may need to either rewrite the target program
>> to accept the number as the first input line, or if that's not possible,
>> write a wrapper for the program which will fulfill that functionality.
>>
>> mark->
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 05:11:37PM -0500, Paul McNary thus spoke:
>>> I did this years ago and can not remember now.
>>>
>>> I can do:
>>> USER track=/usr/bin/gotrack001 10944
>>> This works fine.
>>> But I need to replace 10944 with @rn
> I thought  what Faisal said was what I used but that produced garbage.
>
> USER track="/usr/bin/gotrack001"<@rn
>
>
> I know I did this with version 4.5 but I can find the source I had.
> It says in the manual that you can send argument with the syntax
> track=m
> track=n
> etc
>
> What is the proper sequence to do that?
>
> I can use system with temp files but that is making a mountain out of a
> mole hill.
>
> Thanks for your responses
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