Difficulty using shell in Ubuntu Linux

[Bob Warren]

Thanks Gordon.
No, that's not the trouble. My default shellCommand is also correctly 
set to "/bin/sh".
I've got the awful feeling I'm committting a goof somewhere, but that 
I'm too blind to see it.......

As a result of your mention of the ShellCommand, I've just had the 
inspiration of setting the defaultFolder to "/bin/sh".
The shell call worked perfectly.
So I then tried setting the defaultFolder to the path of the app to be 
called, and now it also worked!!! Before, it didn't.
I am utterly confused.
Could it be that my RR/Ubuntu system was showing the benefit of  a few 
hours' sleep after turning off the computer?

Anyway Gordon, thanks for the tip. It wasn't the cause of the problem, 
but it certainly seems to have inspired my Ubuntu! Now I need to see how 
the shell works (or doesn't work) after doing other "provocative" things 
like I was doing last night, i.e. messing around with 
mounting/unmounting the floppy (but that's another source of pending 
questions to the RR/Linux community).

Bob

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Gordon Tillman wrote:

> On Feb 8, 2006, at 08:03, Bob Warren wrote:
>
>> I am using Ubuntu Linux (#5.04 - "Hoary Hedgehog")*** with Rev 2.6.1.
>> No matter what I try, I cannot get the function/commands "shell",  
>> "launch" or "open process" to work. I have checked that the path to  
>> the standalone folder for launching is correct (by displaying its  
>> files), messing about with the default folder, putting the program  
>> path into a Global variable, etc., etc., all to no avail.
>>
>> Do these commands work in other versions of Linux?
>> Is similar failure the experience of other Ubuntu users?
>>
>> Bob
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> Bob I'm running on the same build of Ubuntu and the shell command  
> works fine for me.  Check something... in the message box enter:
>
> put the shellCommand
>
> Make sure is it set to something valid.  Mine is set to "/bin/sh"
>
> --gordon
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