Hi Benoit,

On 6 April 2018 at 12:16, Benoit St-Jean via Squeak-dev
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org> wrote:
> Is there any way I can start squeak from a command window, *headless*, and
> WITHOUT providing a script and have an interactive application^  Say, for
> instance, my application waits for input and answers back the square of the
> number I type in?
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> I've tried a gazillion examples I found and it just doesn't work at all...
>
> I'm on Windows 10 if that helps.

https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/blob/Cog/image/buildspurtrunkreaderimage.sh

builds an image which does basically what you want.  I've only tried
it on Linux.

HTH,
Alistair



> I get all kinds of errors : stdout is not open or
> "VirtualProtect(x,y,PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE): No error" or missing ', or
> variable out of scope (WHAT?!?!?)...
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> In other words, I'm fed up trying.
>
> I could do that stuff in 2 minutes in any other language and this makes me
> sick!
>
> </rant>
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> On Friday, April 6, 2018, 5:28:13 a.m. EDT, Nicolas Cellier
> <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2018-04-06 11:11 GMT+02:00 H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>:
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> On 4/6/18, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@ gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2018-04-06 11:04 GMT+02:00 Nicolas Cellier <
>> nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@ gmail.com>:
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>>> By re-routing one or two rivers, it sounds effectively possible, but we
>>> need may little washing particles
>>>
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>> No I don't promise it for May, I meant many
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> Nicolas,
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> Do you have a particular idea how  an implemenation plan/ outline of
> tasks to do  for 'rerouting the rivers for the water to be used for
> cleaning' would look like?
>
> --Hannes
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> Hi Hannes,
> isn't it precisely what Tim (and you) are trying to achieve thru this call
> to goodwill?
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>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Labours_of_Hercules#Fifth_
>>> labour:_Augean_stables
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>>> 2018-04-05 19:47 GMT+02:00 tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>:
>>>
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>>>> > On 05-04-2018, at 10:13 AM, K K Subbu <kksubbu.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > wiki.squeak.org/squeak is an excellent resource for Squeakers.
>>>> However, it's interface is a bit dated and could do with some
>>>> improvements.
>>>>
>>>> I agree that the UI is a bit blah (and your suggestions are interesting)
>>>> but far more worrying is the out of date state of so many pages.  Every
>>>> now
>>>> and then I go on a minor rampage to mark obviously obsolete pages,
>>>> delete
>>>> clearly ridiculous one, recycle those pages, update stuff where I know
>>>> what
>>>> can be improved and so on. We suffer from a colossal swathe of
>>>> effectively
>>>> empty pages generated by some long-gone process/project that appeared to
>>>> consider that dumping class name as page and (maybe) sticking class
>>>> comments in was a good idea. There are strings of pages forming the
>>>> promising beginnings of tutorials that simply fade out
>>>> to.........{crickets}
>>>>
>>>> Almost anyone can help to clean up the swiki. Pick some page from the
>>>> front page, follow it down the rabbit-hole a bit, look at the pages that
>>>> link to a duff page, clean them up a bit, recycle bad pages, rewrite
>>>> poorly
>>>> thought out explanations, maybe replace ancient screenshots with ones
>>>> taken
>>>> from a current Squeak.  (as an example, take a look at
>>>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/ 3480 - lots of very out of date examples
>>>> there). Even simple things like organising into proper lists and editing
>>>> text into proper paragraphs can help a lot in readability. You don't
>>>> need
>>>> to be a great expert to provide a valuable service here - but I bet that
>>>> spending some time in the swiki will start to make you an expert, even
>>>> if
>>>> it's only by making you look up the real state of something!
>>>>
>>>> If everyone on the squeak-dev list edited a swiki page once a week we'd
>>>> very quickly see big improvements.
>>>>
>>>> tim
>>>> --
>>>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>>>> I'm so skeptical that I'm not sure I'm really a skeptic
>>>>
>>>>
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