metacard digest, Vol 1 #78 - 14 msgs

[Richard MacLemale]

I wrote, then Andu wrote,
>> on startup
>>    put "Hello"
>>    put shell("ls -l")
>> end startup
>> 
>> When I run it from the command line (./test.mt), I get this:
>> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> I can run other metacard scripts and everything else works perfectly.
>> 
>> Sooo.... What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Nothing. It just doesn't work. It works on Linux though so it must be a
> Darwin thing.

OK - Scott Raney said you could do shell commands in darwin mc, and someone
else verified that you could, but the above script doesn't work, soooo...
What would be an example of a script that WOULD work?

Please?


:)
Richard MacLemale
Instructional Technology Specialist
James W. Mitchell High School
http://mitchellonline.pasco.k12.fl.us