Re: Run a command line app from memory

2014-05-04 Thread Andrew Kluthe
It is but outside of my current skill set. Someone else wrote this. ;) I might have to explore that as well. Thanks! On May 3, 2014 10:45 PM, Peter W A Wood peterwaw...@gmail.com wrote: Andrew Is it not possible for you to include the C code as a LiveCode external rather than write a separate

Run a command line app from memory

2014-05-03 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Hello, I have the need to run a command line utility from LiveCode without writing it to disk. Ideally I would like to store it in a custom property and find a way to run it in memory without ever writing it to a disk. Is this at all possible using only LiveCode? Kind regards, Andrew

Re: Run a command line app from memory

2014-05-03 Thread Andrew Kluthe
I should have mentioned the particular platform I am interested in is windows. On May 3, 2014 9:33 PM, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me wrote: Hello, I have the need to run a command line utility from LiveCode without writing it to disk. Ideally I would like to store it in a custom property and

Re: Run a command line app from memory

2014-05-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andrew Kluthe wrote: I have the need to run a command line utility from LiveCode without writing it to disk. Ideally I would like to store it in a custom property and find a way to run it in memory without ever writing it to a disk. Is this at all possible using only LiveCode? If I

Re: Run a command line app from memory

2014-05-03 Thread Dar Scott
Would it meet your intent to write this to a special folder, run it and then remove it? (I did this on OS X before we had better ways to do admin things.) On May 3, 2014, at 8:34 PM, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me wrote: I should have mentioned the particular platform I am interested in is

Re: Run a command line app from memory

2014-05-03 Thread Peter W A Wood
Hello Andrew It all depends on what you mean by a command line utility. Do you mean a built-in command line utility (such as dir/w) or a program you have written? Regards Peter On 4 May 2014, at 10:33, Andrew Kluthe wrote: Hello, I have the need to run a command line utility from

Re: Run a command line app from memory

2014-05-03 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Good point Richard. I never thought of it like that. Hmmm, I'll have to look into that. How I'm doing it now is how you've described it but I was asked if I could come up with a way to do this without adding any new files to disk on the fly and not need admin rights to facilitate this. It was

Re: Run a command line app from memory

2014-05-03 Thread Peter W A Wood
Andrew Is it not possible for you to include the C code as a LiveCode external rather than write a separate program? Regards Peter On 4 May 2014, at 11:24, Andrew Kluthe wrote: Good point Richard. I never thought of it like that. Hmmm, I'll have to look into that. How I'm doing it now is