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From: norbert@iraul1.ira.uka.de (Norbert Lindenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Sublaunching from MPW
Message-ID: <783@iraun1.ira.uka.de>
Date: 5 Feb 89 11:47:31 GMT
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Reply-To: norbert@iraul1.ira.uka.de (Norbert Lindenberg)
Organization: Karlsruhe University, West-Germany
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Bjorn Freeman-Benson asks: 
> I have a program that would like to run the MPW C compiler as a
> subtask.  This program is an MPW Tool, and I would like to run the C
> compiler just the way that the Shell runs a Tool --- it runs that
> then control returns to the Shell.

Nope, subprocesses are not supported by MPW, the Shell only allows
to run one tool at a time. The general workaround is to split
the single program you would have under Unix into two parts for MPW:
a tool that creates a script, and a script that runs your tool and
executes the tool's output. Look at the way the BuildProgram script
uses the Make tool to get the idea.

-- Norbert