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[matthias_livecode_150811 at m-r-d.de]

Hi, i  see that among openssl also curl is used in the shell script.

So shouldn't Livecode be able to do the curl stuff with tsNet instead?

Matthias




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Matthias Rebbe
Life Is Too Short For Boring Code

> Am 23.04.2021 um 17:54 schrieb Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> On 2021-04-23 16:11, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote:
>> Hello Andrew,
>> The lesson was written and tested on a Mac. But yeah, on Windows, when
>> trying to execute "sh /path/to/send.sh" either directly from the
>> terminal or via the shell command using LC, it is expected to throw an
>> error. You _might_ be able to work around this by changing the .sh
>> extension to .bat if you are on Windows, and instead of "sh
>> /path/to/send.sh" use "/path/to/send.bat".
>> If I find some time I'll experiment with this and update the lesson next
>> week, unless you get there first :)
> 
> Unfortunately bash scripts are incompatible with bat(ch) - they are both 'shells' but the latter is distinctly tied to Windows - so you'd need to translate the script from bash to batch. (There are windows builds of Curl that run on windows - they use exactly the same arguments / options).
> 
> That being said, if you want a quick way to get UNIX style shell scripts to work - then you could install Cygwin and the commands used in said shell script (is it just curl?) - you can then run the shell script from the cygwin terminal.
> 
> Cygwin is basically a lot of UNIXy stuff compiled to run on Windows with an emulation layer for POSIX system calls mapped to Windows.
> 
> You might also want to investigate Microsoft's own relatively new 'UNIX on Windows' stuff - although I think that is restricted to recentish versions of Windows 10. There, they basically run a custom linux kernel on top of Windows to give you a Linux environment which interoperates quite well alongside Windows.
> 
> Warmest Regards,
> 
> Mark.
> 
> 
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