Need a good "open process" sample

andu undo at cloud9.net
Sun Oct 6 23:47:01 EDT 2002


--On Sunday, October 06, 2002 03:01:52 -0400 Simon Lord <slord at mac.com> 
wrote:

> I can never get this command straight.  Anyone have a straight forward
> example of metacard using "open process" to launch a process via the
> shell.  I'm going nuts running "put shell()" and having mc wait around
> until the process is completed.  This would help a lot.  Thanks.

On Linux:
open process "netscape" -- pops up the browser.
open process "netscape http://www.metacard.com" --with url
open process "netscape -mail" -- pops up messenger



Regards, Andu Novac



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