On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 4:03 PM Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote: > > Dennis > > I think you were saying that TCL was used to link programs together.
Well, to tie them together. Linking is a different thing. You can think of TCL as a vastly more powerful version of a batch file, calling other programs from the script with execution guided by the results of previous calls. (In DOS batch you can use things like "if errorlevel" to determine the success or failure of a previous process and do different things depending on whether or not the previous program succeeded. Of course, this requires the programs you run exit with a return code that DOS can store and access. Not all did.) In Don Libes' Expect application written in TCL, I could to things like use TCL to spawn an application to communicate to a remote host that expected interactive execution, and use the TCL "expect" command with a parameter of *what* to expect to grab the prompt from the host and do the next thing needed in response, so I could log on to the remote host and run commands on it and collect results automatically, and not have to be manually controlling the process. (I had one job that ran at midnight, connected to a Unix host, and collected job status reports which it then sent along to an NT server that was accessible from the outside world so the clients could see the status of what we were doing for them. We *weren't* comfortable opening ports on our firewall to let them get directly to the Unix server, and it wasn't necessary. Just put the reports on a server they *could* get to and let them grab them. And this happened automatically while we all slept. > Is it possible to use it to link qpro to quickview. > Could I open quickview while runing qpro. > If anyone would know it would be you. Under a multi-tasking OS like Linux or Windows, likely. Under a single tasking OS like DOS, likely *not*. If it could be done, it would require suspending Qpro and opening Quickview. I recall doing things like that in DOS using TSRs, where the TSR display opened over what the running program had on screen. The currently running program was suspended while the TSR ran, and when you left the TSR, execution resumed on the underlying program. Unless Quickview can be implemented as a TSR to pop up over QPro, I don't see this working. And I assume you would want to do it interactively, and press something like a hotkey combo to pop up Quickview. TCL can't do that for you. It's intended for *unattended* processing. I'm afraid TCL isn't the tool for the job you want to do. > cheers > DS ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
