Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Question about program to execute other programs.
Keywords: Execute, stdin, stdout, keyboard queue
Message-ID: <6994@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 89 15:06:58 GMT
References: <1345@rivm05.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1345@rivm05.UUCP> ccemdd@rivm.UUCP (Marco Dedecker) writes:
>	execute(command, stdin, stdout)
>
>But this is not what I want. I want the execution to wait until my
>program has finished. Can this be done ?

Yes.  The NEWLINE character can be used as a delimiter to separate
multiple commands.  For example, in the CLI/Shell you can type

dir df0:  [NEWLINE]
dir df1:  [NEWLINE]
info [RETURN]

once you type the RETURN each of your commands is executed in turn.
(NEWLINE is control J on the keyboard)

This same method works in the Execute() call, for example

Execute("Wait 1 min\nmyprogram\n",stdin, stdout);

works fairly well.

		andy
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