[squeak-dev] How to call irsend

Louis LaBrunda Lou at Keystone-Software.com
Tue Feb 5 23:15:48 UTC 2013


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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