> You can interrupt the shell function when this happens by pressing
> control-C (which will interrupt any running script, BTW), and can work
> around the problem in the short term by putting a delay into the shell
> command, e.g.:
> put shell("sleep 1; echo $HOME")
This does not help with:
open process "sleep 1; telnet" for update
Incidentally, what would be the name of the process for this last command? You
need it in subsequent read commands such as:
read from process "????" until return
Michael
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Assoc Professor Michael J Rees
Human-Computer Communications Centre
School of Information Technology
Bond University, Queensland 4229, Australia
Tel: +61 75 953351 Fax: +61 75 953333
E-mail: Michael.Rees@bond.edu.au