Re: Problem with "Run" command on WindowsNT
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- Subject: [mg18570] Re: Problem with "Run" command on WindowsNT
- From: paulh at wolfram.com (P.J. Hinton)
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 01:01:17 -0400
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In article <7m6j2o$2l8 at smc.vnet.net>, tanguy Risset <Tanguy.Risset at irisa.fr> writes: > On Mathematica 3.0 on windowsNT, when I type > In[1]:= Run["dir"] > > a dos window appear briefly and disapear immediatly > out[1]:= 0 > > Does anyone knows how to suppress the appearance of this windows? > Is it different in Mathematica 4.0? Quoting _The Mathematica Book_ (Third Edition), Section 2.11.12: | It is important to realize that Run never "captures" any of the | output from an external command. As a result, where this output | goes is purely determined by your operating system. Similarly, | Run does not supply input to external commands. This means that | the commands can get input through any mechanism provided by | your operating system. There is no user-accessible means for suppressing the creation of the window under Windows 95/98/NT. The Run[] command works by calling a lower level Win32 API function for launching child processes. The function provides a flag that can be set to suppress the creation of console windows, but it is a Windows NT-specific flag. It is hardcoded in Mathematica and cannot be changed by the user at runtime. Going one step backwards, is there a reason you wish to call the operating system DIR command? Perhaps you are not aware that there are Mathematica functions for obtaining a listing of files in a directory. See the ReferenceGuide entry for the function FileNames[]. -- P.J. Hinton Mathematica Programming Group paulh at wolfram.com Wolfram Research, Inc. Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone.