Run a command line app from memory

[Andrew Kluthe]

It is but outside of my current skill set. Someone else wrote this. ;) I
might have to explore that as well. Thanks!
On May 3, 2014 10:45 PM, "Peter W A Wood" <peterwawood at gmail.com> wrote:

> Andrew
>
> Is it not possible for you to include the C code as a LiveCode external
> rather than write a separate program?
>
> Regards
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 4 May 2014, at 11:24, Andrew Kluthe wrote:
>
> > Good point Richard. I never thought of it like that. Hmmm, I'll have to
> > look into that. How I'm doing it now is how you've described it but I was
> > asked if I could come up with a way to do this without adding any new
> files
> > to disk on the fly and not need admin rights to facilitate this. It was
> > written as a c program for the raw performance boost otherwise doing it
> all
> > in LiveCode is a perfect option. I know we can use in memory SQLlite dB's
> > and some other things but I imagine runrev had to do some work on the
> > backside to make that happen. Anyhow, ill keep exploring my alternatives.
> > Thanks for the suggestions.
> >
> > Andrew
> > On May 3, 2014 9:46 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Andrew Kluthe wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have the need to run a command line utility from LiveCode without
> >>> writing it to disk. Ideally I would like to store it in a custom
> >>> property and find a way to run it in memory without ever writing it
> >>> to a disk. Is this at all possible using only LiveCode?
> >>
> >> If I understand this correctly, it's not LiveCode that'll be running the
> >> program, but Windows; LiveCode is simply initiating the execution.
> >>
> >> Can Windows run programs that exist only in the memory space of another
> >> application?
> >>
> >> I don't know the answer to that, but kinda I hope not, since intuitively
> >> it seems like a potential security hole.
> >>
> >> Can you write the program file to temp and launch it from there?
> >>
> >> Or rewrite its functionality in script?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Richard Gaskin
> >> Fourth World Systems
> >> Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web
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