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!
Christoph
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Hi,
I am new in here and to Squeak in general.
To me OSProcess works in MacOS and FreeBSD (Linux emulation).
I don't have a Windows machine to try unfortunately.
This is a list of working examples (in my operating systems), maybe try to run something similar in Windows. I guess the equivalent of "ls" is "dir".
------------------------------------------------- "in this case we want to take the output from an external program" p := PipeableOSProcess command: 'ls -la'. commandOutput := p output. commandOutput.
"in this case you don't take the output, just run a program." p := OSProcess command: 'ls -la'.
"In FreeBSD (Linux emulation) it works, open Emacs in a GUI." p := OSProcess command: 'emacs'. ---------------------------------------------------
bye Nicola
On 8/3/19 7:50 PM, 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!
Christoph
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Christoph,
You are more fortunate than I am. I tried it on my Win 7 box and it caused a crash.
There is a way to send output to stdout and stderr https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/110930/redirecting-error-messages-from-command-prompt-stderr-stdout . Try adding that to your command and see what you get.
Reminder to all beginners, "Save early and save often"
-jrm
On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 10:50 AM Christoph Thiede < christoph.thiede@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> 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!
Christoph
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Hi John,
[(OSProcess command: 'notepad.exe 2>&1') value] passes '>2&1' as an argument to notepad.exe. If I use PipeableOSProces instead, there is only shown an empty cmd window, no matter what the command is.
@Nicola: Strange, running your first example made my Squeak cursor flickering until I interrupted the command ...
Best,
Christoph
________________________________ Von: Beginners beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org im Auftrag von John-Reed Maffeo jrmaffeo@gmail.com Gesendet: Montag, 5. August 2019 00:48:49 An: A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak. Betreff: Re: [Newbies] Introduction into OSProcess
Christoph,
You are more fortunate than I am. I tried it on my Win 7 box and it caused a crash.
There is a way to send output to stdout and stderrhttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/110930/redirecting-error-messages-from-command-prompt-stderr-stdout . Try adding that to your command and see what you get.
Reminder to all beginners, "Save early and save often"
-jrm
On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 10:50 AM Christoph Thiede <christoph.thiede@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.demailto:christoph.thiede@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> 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!
Christoph
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@Nicola: Strange, running your first example made my Squeak cursor flickering until I interrupted the command ...
Double check: ------- p := PipeableOSProcess command: 'ls -la'. p output. -------
1] In MacOS 10.14.5, confirmed to work. 2] In FreeBSD 12 (Linux emulation 64bit) , confirmed to work
Can't tell you much more unfortunately.
bye Nicola
On Aug 5, 2019, at 12:48 AM, Thiede, Christoph Christoph.Thiede@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de wrote:
Hi John,
[(OSProcess command: 'notepad.exe 2>&1') value] passes '>2&1' as an argument to notepad.exe. If I use PipeableOSProces instead, there is only shown an empty cmd window, no matter what the command is.
@Nicola: Strange, running your first example made my Squeak cursor flickering until I interrupted the command ...
Best, Christoph Von: Beginners beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org im Auftrag von John-Reed Maffeo jrmaffeo@gmail.com Gesendet: Montag, 5. August 2019 00:48:49 An: A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak. Betreff: Re: [Newbies] Introduction into OSProcess
Christoph,
You are more fortunate than I am. I tried it on my Win 7 box and it caused a crash.
There is a way to send output to stdout and stderr https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/110930/redirecting-error-messages-from-command-prompt-stderr-stdout . Try adding that to your command and see what you get.
Reminder to all beginners, "Save early and save often"
-jrm
On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 10:50 AM Christoph Thiede <christoph.thiede@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de mailto:christoph.thiede@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> 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!
Christoph
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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
Hi Dave,
thank you for the hint, but the dependency chain of ProcessWrapper seems very long (ProcessWrapperPlugin, SmartSyntaxInterpreterPlugin, VMMaker, KlattResonatorIndices, FFI, ...). Can I get SmartSyntaxInterpreterPlugin anywhere separately?
Best,
Christoph
________________________________ Von: Beginners beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org im Auftrag von David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com Gesendet: Montag, 5. August 2019 14:53:28 An: A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak. Betreff: Re: [Newbies] Introduction into OSProcess
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
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I can't check this myself right now, but if you go to the http://www.squeaksource.com page and navigate to the ProcessWrapper project, the overview page says that you can download a copy of the plugin by evaluating "ProcessWrapper downloadPlugin". If that works, then you can copy the plugin dll to the folder for your VM (wherever the other plugin dll's are located), and hopefully it will just work. I am guessing that the download will be for a 32 bit Windows VM.
HTH, Dave
Hi Dave,
thank you for the hint, but the dependency chain of ProcessWrapper seems very long (ProcessWrapperPlugin, SmartSyntaxInterpreterPlugin, VMMaker, KlattResonatorIndices, FFI, ...). Can I get SmartSyntaxInterpreterPlugin anywhere separately?
Best,
Christoph
Von: Beginners beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org im Auftrag von David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com Gesendet: Montag, 5. August 2019 14:53:28 An: A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak. Betreff: Re: [Newbies] Introduction into OSProcess
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
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