LC from TxED
Gabe,
Commodore hasn't documented anything regarding to how their shell can be
invoked by Execute(), although I had thought that the 1.3 RUN command (which is
used to process the command) was smart enough to look for shell-seg on the
residnet list.
There is a much better solution, however, which is to use WShell to run the
commands. SInce it has a real ARexx interface, the commands get issued
directly to WShell (i.e. you don't need to use "address command"), and the
return code from the command is available to your macro program. WShell is
quite compatible with the CLI and 1.3 shell, so you don't need to learn a lot
of new commands, and it has some nice features like a configurable titlebar and
prompt string, implicit CD command, and support for a close gadget on your
window.
Bill Hawes