Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: It is possible to pass command line to pascal

2013-06-30 Thread Rainer Stratmann
On Sunday 30 June 2013 04:10:42 you wrote: So you want to run a program and get its output, am I right? In that case, Rainer Stratmann wrote: May be he means to execute a command in a shell. ? Johan Tu Toit wrote: Yes ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal] It is possible to pass command line to pascal

2013-06-30 Thread Rainer Stratmann
On Sunday 30 June 2013 00:59:59 you wrote: I Tried, but only return an integer not a string value. Thats right. You have to put the result in a file and then afterwards read the file. ls uname -r file.txt The integer is the result code of the execution. It contains information if the

Re: [fpc-pascal] It is possible to pass command line to pascal

2013-06-30 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Rainer Stratmann wrote: On Sunday 30 June 2013 00:59:59 you wrote: I Tried, but only return an integer not a string value. Thats right. You have to put the result in a file and then afterwards read the file. ls uname -r file.txt I'm sorry, but that's misleading on at least two accounts.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: It is possible to pass command line to pascal

2013-06-30 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, leledumbo said: If you use trunk version, there are simple wrappers in process unit to do in in a single line. Afaik they made it to 2.6.2. Note that you have to pass the shell yourself (/bin/sh but note that might not always be bash).

Re: [fpc-pascal] It is possible to pass command line to pascal

2013-06-30 Thread Rainer Stratmann
On Sunday 30 June 2013 12:32:30 you wrote: Rainer Stratmann wrote: On Sunday 30 June 2013 00:59:59 you wrote: I Tried, but only return an integer not a string value. Thats right. You have to put the result in a file and then afterwards read the file. ls uname -r file.txt

Re: [fpc-pascal] It is possible to pass command line to pascalt

2013-06-30 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Rainer Stratmann said: If you speed up your engine then you can find out that he wants to know the actual Linux kernel number. Then why doesn't he simply use uses baseunix; var u: UtsName; begin fpuname(u); writeln(u.release); end.

Re: [fpc-pascal] It is possible to pass command line to pascalt

2013-06-30 Thread Rainer Stratmann
On Sunday 30 June 2013 13:25:29 you wrote: In our previous episode, Rainer Stratmann said: If you speed up your engine then you can find out that he wants to know the actual Linux kernel number. Then why doesn't he simply use uses baseunix; var u: UtsName; begin fpuname(u);

Re: [fpc-pascal] It is possible to pass command line to pascal

2013-06-30 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Rainer Stratmann wrote: On Sunday 30 June 2013 12:32:30 you wrote: Rainer Stratmann wrote: On Sunday 30 June 2013 00:59:59 you wrote: I Tried, but only return an integer not a string value. Thats right. You have to put the result in a file and then afterwards read the file. ls uname -r

Re: [fpc-pascal] It is possible to pass command line to pascal

2013-06-30 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/29/2013 20:53, Johan Tu Toit wrote: On 6/30/13, waldo kittywkitt...@windstream.net wrote: FWIW: top posting is like reading a book backwards... please post below existing quotes... *^^^* i fixed your quotes and

Re: [fpc-pascal] It is possible to pass command line to pascal

2013-06-30 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/30/2013 05:41, Rainer Stratmann wrote: On Sunday 30 June 2013 00:59:59 you wrote: I Tried, but only return an integer not a string value. Thats right. You have to put the result in a file and then afterwards read the file. ls uname -r file.txt what?! that's not right... i've never

Re: [fpc-pascal] It is possible to pass command line to pascal

2013-06-30 Thread Rainer Stratmann
On Sunday 30 June 2013 14:14:56 you wrote: In which case why is he putting ls in front of it? I guess he simply does not know by now and tries out something. -r is a valid option to both uname and ls, so since we're already looking at a broken command it's entirely valid to ask which it's

Re: [fpc-pascal] It is possible to pass command line to pascal

2013-06-30 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/30/2013 08:14, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Rainer Stratmann wrote: On Sunday 30 June 2013 12:32:30 you wrote: If I had to go on, what's that -r supposed to be doing? It is not too difficult to find out. If you speed up your engine then you can find out that he wants to know the actual

Re: [fpc-pascal] It is possible to pass command line to pascal

2013-06-30 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/30/2013 08:44, Rainer Stratmann wrote: On Sunday 30 June 2013 14:14:56 you wrote: In which case why is he putting ls in front of it? I guess he simply does not know by now and tries out something. don't guess... others cannot learn from assumptions and guesses... -r is a valid

Re: [fpc-pascal] It is possible to pass command line to pascal

2013-06-30 Thread Rainer Stratmann
perhaps someone should slow down their engine and look closer at what is posted? ;) hahaha ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] It is possible to pass command line to pascal

2013-06-30 Thread Rainer Stratmann
On Sunday 30 June 2013 14:56:33 you wrote: It is not necessary to delete the file. so you propose to leave temporary files laying about all over the place polluting the filesystem? hahaha All over the world! ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal] It is possible to pass command line to pascal

2013-06-30 Thread waldo kitty
On 6/30/2013 09:12, Johan Tu Toit wrote: sorry it is my fault it was suppose to be: $uname -r ok... thank you for clarifying that ;) have you learned what you need to do from the link leledumbo gave earlier in this thread? http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Executing_External_Programs

Re: [fpc-pascal] It is possible to pass command line to pascal

2013-06-30 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, waldo kitty said: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Executing_External_Programs I added a short paragraph about runcommand ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org