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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Spawning programs, problems and questions
Message-ID: <2935@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 1 Nov 88 02:04:11 GMT
References: <8810311855.AA05614@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <8810311855.AA05614@cory.Berkeley.EDU>, dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
  I said:
> :If anyone can provide an implementation of "system()" that works:

> 	Doesn't Execute() work (DOS library call).

Sometimes it hangs (never returns). Maybe it's trying to solve the halting
problem?

> You might have to
> setup pr_CIS and pr_COS before running it, but it ought to work (not at 
> home so I can't test this) in all cases.

I'll try that, sounds like a great idea. As in "You idiot, Peter, why didn't
you think of that?". Gonna make things complex, though.

> 	The problem with Execute() is that you can't get the exit value
> of the program.

Least of my problems...
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		Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
		 Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?

	Disclaimer: I accept full responsibility for my own typos.