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RE: Re: Run option

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg71974] RE: [mg71946] Re: Run option
• From: "Jose Luis Gomez" <jose.luis.gomez at itesm.mx>
• Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 06:04:07 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: ITESM

Hello John

About your suggestion

ReadList["!DIR",Record]
 
It works great in Windows. 

Do you (or anybody) know if it works in other operative systems (Mac,
Linux)? 

Thanks in advance!

Jose 

-----Mensaje original-----
De: John Jowett [mailto:John.Jowett at cern.ch] 
Enviado el: Martes, 05 de Diciembre de 2006 05:05 a.m.
Para: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Asunto: [mg71946] Re: Run option

Chris,
         It is often better to use ReadList than Run.  I always use this for

running external "console" programs.   No command window appears and it also

has the advantage that you can easily capture and manipulate the program's 
output stream.

Compare

Run["DIR"]

with

ReadList["!DIR",Record]

Note that you need to prefix the command string with "!".     You can also 
use Import which gives more ways of dealing with the output.

I have often wondered if there is any disadvantage to this (why is it not 
documented?) but have not found any.

John Jowett

"Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name> wrote in message 
news:el11sv$44a$1 at smc.vnet.net...
Hi, please add an option to Run that can disable the command window
that pops up when an external command is run (on Windows platforms).
The present behavior becomes quite annoying when multiple commands are
run successively in a batch job.

-- 
http://chris.chiasson.name/