StdOut on Windows

[Mike Bonner]

Hey, not sure this is an acceptable method but.. If you have control of the
target system and can install unxutils, then you can build a standalone
that does a "write whatever to stdout"

If you run it with the -ui parameters, as you've seen nothing appears on
screen. But if you pipe to cat, viola' It works.

timeout -ui |cat

I had noticed in the console logs that SOMETHING was occuring (an error
crops up when a livecode app that does stdout is run) and on a whim did a
redirect to a file and the file actually did end up with the stuff from
stdout.
(timeout > tempfile) so figured being able to pipe it to a well mannered
utility like cat might work.

The cool thing is that once unxutils are installed you then have access to
grep, agrep and lots of other nifty things.
If you want to check out these utils they can be found at *
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/*

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Mark Schonewille <
m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> Nothing new there. I know for a fact that it doesn't work on Windows and
> am looking for a good trick.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Mark Schonewille
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> On 22 jan 2012, at 18:33, Thunder wrote:
>
> > *User Guide.pdf  - Search for stdout*
> >
> > Output to Standard Out (stdOut or the Console on Mac OS X)
> > The stdOut is a useful place to log messages. Unlike the Message Box, it
> is
> > easy to log a
> > sequence of events which you can then scroll back to review later on. It
> > also has the
> > advantage of being external to LiveCode so using it does not interfere
> with
> > your
> > application window layering or focus in any way.
> >
> > *The stdOut is only available on Linux, Unix or Mac OS X systems.*
> > */<------ No windows /*
> >
> > On Mac OS X, it can be accessed by opening the Console
> > application, located in the Utilities folder within Applications.
> > The syntax to write something to stdOut or the Console is:
> > write tMessage & return to stdout.
> >
> >
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Search for *stdout in the dictionary* indicates that windows *is
> *supported
> > under : *Supported Operating Systems*
> >
> >
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > ..so...should it work on windows ... or not ?
> >
> > (LiveCode 5.0.1)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark Schonewille-3 wrote
> >>
> >> workaround .......
> >>
> >
> > ...sorry , no.
>
>
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