Re: [Oorexx-devel] RxWinExec - Two of them?

[Rick M. <obj...@gm...>]

The "WinExec" part of the name should be a clue to how portable this is.
This is just a simple stub to an existing Windows API (and an old one, at
that).

On 10/28/05, le...@sa... <le...@sa...> wrote:
>
> Michael,
> I was thinking of offering the same suggestion on comp.lang.rexx
> (RxWinExec), but I wasn't fully sure what platform the OP was on and I
> haven't been where I could determine if RxWinExec was available on OS/2
> (if in fact that is what the OP is using).
>
> Is RxWinExec available on OS/2? If that is what the OP is using and it
> is available, then it would surely answer their problem, since RxWinExec
> can execute its program completely hidden.
>
> Lee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oor...@li...
> [mailto:oor...@li...] On Behalf Of Michael
> Lueck
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 8:02 AM
> To: oor...@li...
> Subject: [Oorexx-devel] RxWinExec - Two of them?
>
>
> A while back Lee Peeding was asking about RxWinExec return codes in
> comp.lang.rexx so I looked it up in RexxUtil.c. hhhmmm, only thing is
> that thing cranks back all sorts of odd numbers now that I try the
> function and I sure don't see that in the source code. What am I
> missing... again!? (<rant>Blasted fancy stuff that can be done in
> C!</rant>)
>
> Thought to offer that function to the folks in comp.lang.rexx currently
> looking to not see the command line being executed. It looks like it
> will serve that purpose.
>
> However I found it mangles slashes if you hand it "dir /s" to execute.
> Looks like "dir \\s" is what actually is tried to be executed.
>
> Anyway, trying to better understand this function before we write a Sys*
> named function that starts programs cross platform, returns PID's, waits
> for processes vs "forking" them, etc... Mainly the RC's was enough to
> have me scratching my head, now slash mangling... oh fun!
>
> TIA!
>
> Michael Lueck
> Lueck Data Systems
> http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
>
>
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