I was using shell on Linux (RedHat 9) to copy files and open a URL location using MetaCard 2.4.3 (I am using 2.5 right now). I will check the next time I am on that computer ;-)
I am looking for a fix to the font issues with ANY version of MetaCard on Linux...only 'some' fonts will work :-( JR > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 17:27:45 -1000 > From: Sannyasin Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: GET Request from Revolution Fails > To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Ok, this was good in theory. But shell seems "dead" with the linux > engine we are using. > > We can log into the Linux server in Austin from Hawaii via SSH and > issue a shell command like this > > ls -al ## obvious and simple > > But if we run this from inside an xTalk CGI, nothing happens: > > > on startUp > put ("ls -al") into temp > get shell(temp) > put it into var1 > put "Content-Type: text/plain" & cr > put "Content-Length:" && the length of var1 & cr & cr > put var1 > end startUp > > var1 is empty. > > The version we are using is linux metacard engine version 2.4 build > 2... but docs indicate shell commands should work find for that > version. > > Any hope? > > This is working on OSX with the latest version of Revolution. Is anyone > aware of what the status of shell was with v2.4 b2? > > Sannyasin Sivakatirswami > Himalayan Academy Publications > at Kauai's Hindu Monastery > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > www.HimalayanAcademy.com, > www.HinduismToday.com > www.Gurudeva.org > www.Hindu.org _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution