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From: c60244@ccfiris.aedc (Kenny McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: FORMS
Message-ID: <9101221608.AA15608@ccfiris.aedc>
Date: 22 Jan 91 16:08:35 GMT
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I have recently built the FORMS library.  I have been trying to develop a few
forms.  What I am trying to do is build a form for tar-ing files to & from
remote machines.  I am getting as input the remote host, the remote dir, & the
local dir.  I then try to xeq a system call like the following:

system("rsh remotehost \"cd fromdir; tar cvBf - .\" | (cd todir; tar xBf -)")

This system call xeq's & shows up with a ps -ef on both machines, but nothing
happens.  If I use the same system call in a short c-prog with no forms stuff,
it works fine; it also works fine if I make the call in my forms program BEFORE
I do any form generation.

Does anyone out there using the FORMS library know what is wrong, or how I
can do the above?

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