shell vs. process

Stephen Barncard stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com
Sat Sep 30 19:46:26 EDT 2006


Kevin, look at SHELL commands in the docs


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>In Revolution, which function is better for calling a long-running
>external process and reading data from the process in a non-blocking
>format, for instance, streaming the output from tcpdump into a text
>display?
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>Looking at the docs, it appears that "process" is what I want, but I saw
>something that says that "open process" on OS X is only useful for
>launching applications...not launching background command-line processes
>and reading their output to stdout as one would expect to do on a
>Unix-style platform. Since I am targeting OS X, I need to know how
>others handle this.
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>Kevin Walzer
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