Oh.... wow.
Urm....
So any command that requires input will hang, I got that, because it's not
actually opening an interactive session with *your process* but rather with the
server (or thereabouts).
So I just connected to the server and checked Task Manager and there are a lot
of processes with my name on them from failed attempts where some input was
requested.
Which also tells me why files weren't closing and updating, and why I was
getting errors that files were still in use and so on.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Clark <u...@edclark.net>
To: U2 Users List <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org>
Sent: Wed, Feb 15, 2012 3:35 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] Universe's DOS command
yeah, they left that out. If you look at the docs for the SH. CSH, and VI
ommands, they suggest that you look at the unix documentation on those
ommands, but they don't mention it in the manual for DOS. Maybe they assumed
ou would figure that out by looking at the VOC entry:
DOS
01 V
02 cmd.exe
03 U
04 TICERGM
07 /Q
The U on line 3 of the VOC means that running the verb will execute line 2 as
an
s command and pass the rest of the command line to the os command. If you
anted to you could create your own verbs like this, for example if you have
ygwin installed you could run the cygwin shell instead of the cmd.exe shell.
his is more useful on unix than on windows, because the command needs to run in
he console and not try to open desktop windows. If, for example, you try to run
OTEPAD.EXE like this, your terminal will hang because notepad is running
omewhere in a virtual desktop that you can't get to.
If you try to use the SH verb on windows, or the DOS verb on unix, you get a
essage telling you the command doesn't work on your OS. The "E" on line 4 of
he voc controls this. Verbs with an E run on windows but not on unix. (There's
chapter on this in the system description manual).
On Feb 15, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Wjhonson wrote:
>
I mean they are not document in the Universe manuals for the DOS command
xecutable at TCL.
You only get the /c
It doesn't even tell you where to go to get more information.
Like "There are other options, go to Dos and type cmd /?"
....
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Houben <robert.hou...@fwic.net>
To: U2 Users List <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org>
Sent: Wed, Feb 15, 2012 1:00 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] Universe's DOS command
They actually do document these. Go to a command prompt and type:
cmd /?
Or
help cmd
(Both produce the same output)
Enjoy!
-----Original Message-----
rom: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
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> n Behalf Of Wjhonson
ent: February-15-12 11:00 AM
o: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
ubject: Re: [U2] Universe's DOS command
h... My... God
mazing
try DOS /C DIR
hen try DOS /K DIR
how come they don't document this and we have to make guesses?
-----Original Message-----
rom: Bob Rasmussen <r...@anzio.com>
o: U2 Users List <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org>
ent: Wed, Feb 15, 2012 10:38 am
ubject: Re: [U2] Universe's DOS command
n educated guess would be that the DOS command invokes the command rocessor
command.com in long-ago Windows, cmd.exe now) and passes the \c" (or is it
/c"?) to it.
f in Windows you open a CMD prompt, and type
cmd /?
u can see what options it accepts. My output includes:
/C Carries out the command specified by string and then terminates
urther down the help display, it gives more information.
n Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Wjhonson wrote:
The DOS command in Universe takes a "/c" argument and then you can specify a
t
ile like
DOS \c test.bat
What does \c mean? Are there other arguments like \z or \x that it can take?
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