lc shell and command line

[John Brozycki]

Regarding shell commands and LiveCode....

I've noticed that under OS X, invocation of a shell command is silent.  But under Windows, you see a CMD window quickly pop up and disappear.  I haven't found any options to prevent the shell command popping up under Windows, but wondered if anyone knew of a way to prevent it from happening.  

Thanks,
John

On Nov 14, 2011, at 3:12 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote:

> I'm having trouble with the livecode shell and cd command also.
> 
> pwd in a terminal does:
> 
>    :~/  runrev 4.5/livecode-4.5.2$
> 
> cd ..
> 
>    :~/  runrev 4.5$ 
> 
> pwd
> 
>    runrev 4.5$
> 
> If you do the exact same things using put shell("...."), this doesn't work. 
> In particular, 
> 
>    put shell("pwd")
> 
> does indeed return the working directory, but 
> 
>    put shell("cd ..") 
> 
> does not work at all.   Why not? Probably an obvious reason - is it
> something to do with escaping characters?
> 
> Peter
> 
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