Pinging via shell stops my script

[Jan Schenkel]

--- RGould8 at aol.com wrote:
> I've got a script (below) that refuses to execute
> any lines after the shell 
> command is executed.   Any idea why this is
> happening?   If I do the shell 
> via Applescript, it works.   It's only when using
> the new shell command in 
> Rev 2.0 that it ceases to continue.   I've done
> other shell commands just 
> fine.   The ping result is instantaneous in the
> Terminal application.
>    
> 
> put "/sbin/ping -c 1 www.verizon.com" into
> shelltorun
> shell(shelltorun)
> put the result into data
> 

The Transcript Dicoinary claims that 'shell' is a
function. Try this:

 put "/sbin/ping -c 1 www.verizon.com" into shelltorun
 put shell(shelltorun) into data

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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