Shell Commands

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 10:10 AM -0800 2/14/2002, Roger.E.Eller at sealedair.com wrote:
>I was trying to figure out how to pass commands to the OS on the OS level.
>Shell looks promising, but I cannot get it to work. What is wrong with this
>script?
>
>on mouseUp
>  set the shellCommand to "C:/WINNT/SYSTEM32/command.com"
>  shell("dir C:\")
>  answer the result
>end mouseUp

The problem is that shell is a function whose return value is the returned
data - not a command. So you need

  answer shell("dir C:/")

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