Calling external program?

[Dar Scott]

On Monday, May 17, 2004, at 05:58 PM, robert1111 wrote:

> Does anyone know how to call an external program with Revolution? I 
> have numerous math routines written in a DOS Forth program, and also 
> in a Windows Forth program. How do I pass parameters to and from these 
> programs?

If your programs take command-line args, then the shell() function 
might work for you.  You can pass values by args and by files.

If that does not work out, there might be other options what will apply.

Dar Scott