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Re: RunThrough on Windows 2000

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  • Subject: [mg45353] Re: RunThrough on Windows 2000
  • From: drbob at bigfoot.com (Bobby R. Treat)
  • Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 04:23:42 -0500 (EST)
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The UNIX command "cat" expects an input file name as its argument.

The RunThrough command puts its second argument in the default input
stream, and opens "cat" on that input stream.

Bobby

Harold.Noffke at wpafb.af.mil (Harold Noffke) wrote in message news:<bt0v36$hgt$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> Group:
> 
> On my Windows 2000 system, I have a 1991 MS-DOS application called
> "MKS Toolkit".  It has a Unix "cat" command.  Here's some interesting
> results with Mathematica 5.0.
> 
> If I use the example in the Mathematica Book, I get ...
> 
> In[60]:=
> RunThrough ["cat", 123]
> Out[60]=
> 123
> 
> after a brief flash of the Mathematica-launched DOS box.
> 
> If I embellish this example a bit, I get ...
> 
> In[61]:=
> RunThrough ["cat", 123+456]
> Out[61]=
> 579
> 
> These are not the results I expected, as when this 1991 "cat" is typed
> directly into the MKS DOS box I get ...
> 
> C:\MKS> cat 123
> cat: 123: no such file or directory
> 
> and ...
> 
> C:\MKS> cat 123+456
> cat: 123+456: no such file or directory
> 
> I'm baffled.  Does this make sense to anyone?
> 
> Harold


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