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[Kenneth Brody]

On 3/9/2015 11:49 AM, Fairlight wrote:
> What's there difference between invoking the two?  Using a variable for the
> return value, or using parentheses?  Or both?

The difference is that one is a *COMMAND*:

     SYSTEM command_to_execute

and the other is a *FUNCTION*:

     status = SYSTEM( command_to_execute )

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> On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 09:06:05AM -0400, Kenneth Brody thus spoke:
>> The SYSTEM *command* was never "redone".  Rather, as I wrote in my
>> original reply (quoted above), 5.6 introduced the SYSTEM()
>> *function*.
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Kenneth Brody