[Newbies] Introduction into OSProcess

[David T. Lewis]

On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 12:50:44PM -0500, Christoph Thiede wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to run a simple shell command using OSProcess:
> 
> ExternalWindowsOSProcess command: 'taskmgr.exe'
> 
> I'm afraid it "does not work", so after evaluating this expression, no
> window opens and also no icon appears in the systray. If I open cmd.exe and
> type taskmgr.exe there, taskmgr opens.
> 
> However, the following works as expected:
> 
> ExternalWindowsOSProcess command: 'notepad.exe'
> 
> Using absolute paths did not change the behavior.
> 
> I installed the latest OSProcess version via SqueakMap. Is this a bug, or is
> it me? Thanks in advance!
> 


Hi Christoph,

Support for Windows is very incomplete in OSProcess. I am
not a Windows user, but I understand that the ProcessWrapper
package works very well. You can find ProcessWrapper at
http://www.squeaksource.com/ProcessWrapper

Dave