Hey Dave,
Again, many thanks for the reply. Your instructions worked great and so did my test of the irsend command.
Lou
Open a SqueakMap Package Loader:
world -> open... -> SqueakMap Catalog
In the SqueakMap Package Loader, select package OSProcess. Expand that category and you will find entries for version 4.4.11 and for "head". Either one is fine, but I usually recommend just using the latest version, so select "head" and install it.
Assuming that you want to run irsend with some command line parameters, try inspecting the following expression (but use some command parameters that actually do something):
OSProcess command: 'irsend foo bar baz'
The result will be an instance of ExternalUnixOSProcess that is a proxy for the actual irsend program that you just executed. You can send it #succeeded to see if the command was evaluated without error.
I think this is sufficient for what you are trying to do, but you can also do fancier things with external programs if you load CommandShell (also on SqueakMap).
For additional background see http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/708 and http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1914.
Follow up questions welcome :)
Dave
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