From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: Yet another question on system calls(newbie question)
Date: 10 May 2001 14:03:01 -0700
Date: 2001-05-10T14:03:01-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yecwv7oq5mi.fsf@king.cts.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3AFAC042.E2477223@worldnet.att.net
James Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> writes:
[...]
> Note that your last proposal, to call the system command with the
> name of an image file, will not work. The system command only
> executes files that have executable permissions set. This is not
> normally true for image files.
Take a closer look. The call was
result := C_System(value => "acdsee D:\work\pictures\BP47.jpg ");
The command is acdsee, presumably an image viewer.
BTW, why the trailing blank?
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://www.sdsc.edu/~kst>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-10 15:44 Yet another question on system calls(newbie question) Torbjörn Karfunkel
2001-05-10 16:20 ` James Rogers
2001-05-10 21:03 ` Keith Thompson [this message]
2001-05-10 21:12 ` James Rogers
2001-05-10 21:12 ` Keith Thompson
2001-05-12 1:30 ` DuckE
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2001-05-10 19:40 Torbjörn Karfunkel
2001-05-11 7:18 Torbjörn Karfunkel
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