Re: Run[] and Mathlink
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- Subject: [mg43855] Re: Run[] and Mathlink
- From: "John Jowett" <John.Jowett at cern.ch>
- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 01:54:28 -0400 (EDT)
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Hello James,
It's not quite impossible. Instead of something like
Run["dir"]
you can also try
ReadList["!dir",String]
or even
Import["!dir","Lines"] .
and you will not get a console window appearing under Windows 2000. Of
course it is not equivalent to Run[] because Mathematica has to wait for the
"console output" to appear and the command to terminate. However that
might be enough, depending on your needs, and it's easier than Mathlink.
[For accelerator people like us:
You may be interested in the runMAD function in my Madtomma`RunningMAD
package which uses this technique to run the MAD program. It can be
downloaded (with other packages) from
http://jowett.home.cern.ch/jowett/Mathematica/math.zip
Under Windows 2000 and XP you can set the runMADNThack option to False
(default is still True, maybe I should change that ... ) and the console
windows will not appear. See also the MADprogram option of runMAD.]
John Jowett
"John Smith" <j.s at bt.com> wrote in message news:bm0j27$po2$1 at smc.vnet.net...
>
> Hi,
> I would like to be able to run operating system commands on win2000
without
> the dos box popping up all the time. A quick scan through the archives
have
> shown that this is impossible with the current Mathematica implementation.
> However, the idea of using Mathlink to pass options to CreateProcess() in
> windows as opposed to system() has been suggested as a solution
> http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2000/Oct/msg00082.html.
> Since my knowledge of programming outside mathematica is limited, has a
> member of the group ever programmed this?
> If not, a brief suggestion as to how to at least start programming such a
> function, preferably in C, would be grateful.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> James Jones
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