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[sKy]

Hey

I want a eggdrop to start a external application. Exec wait`s until the prozess ends and will block anything else. Thats what i want to prevent. Is there a way to start a process and to get a callback after it?

best regards
sKy
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[Sir_Fz]

You can use

[demond]

search for "tail -f"
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[sKy]

My failure, i forgot to add thats about windrop.

exec and open |
will always return an error like:
Tcl error: couldn't create error file for command: no such file or directory

Is it possible to fix that?

EDIT:
BgExec ( http://wiki.tcl.tk/12704 ) won`t work too, cause the mainproc is going to use open | aswell too.

Is there any way to execute something (windrop)?
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[sKy]

anyone?
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[Alchera]

You'll need to find the appropriate ported Unix tools to use with Windrop or install cygwin and compile them yourself. The tool(s) are then copied into your Windrop main folder.
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[demond]

what's the Tcl version?

this thing looks pretty ancient to me
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[sKy]

i got it from here
http://windrop.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

before i got Eggdrop v1.6.17 Handlen32 (08.07.2005)

and now i`ve updated to Eggdrop v1.6.18+spelling-errors-suck Handlen32 (25.12.2005)
info tclversion 8.4
info patchlevel 8.4.12

the error still comes up.
it`s not cause i use handlen32 version? (i doub`t that this has anything to do with it)

btw: what means "spelling-errors-suck"?
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[demond]

check your temp-path and if you have c:\tmp; also check the FAQ at windrop's website

or wait for DeKus, he's our windrop guru; I personally have never used the thing, Windows is desktop OS to me
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[sKy]

The temp path is correct (otherwise the bot won`t start).

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from here: http://wiki.tcl.tk/12704 (is working anyway, eggdrop just doesn`t have the command auto_execok)

[De Kus]

you can savely delete them for your script. > changes the default output (stdout) which is usually the console (which you read from with gets/read). example from tclsh console:

[sKy]

Thank you, but i know how open | and exec work. =) My code works already on unix/eggdrop system without problems.

My tests:

- with unix: eggdrop 1.6.17 - working fine
channelid`s like file3

- with unix: tclsh - working fine
channelid`s like file3

- with windows xp: windrop 1.6.17 - Tcl error: couldn't create error file for command: no such file or directory

- with windows xp: 1.6.18cvs - Tcl error: couldn't create error file for command: no such file or directory

- with windows xp: 1.6.16 - working fine
(but this version is outdated, i don`t really want to use it)
the channelid`s are like file107e0560

the incomprehensible was that this (from bgExec):
set redir [expr {[info patchlevel] >= "8.4.7"?{2>@1}:{2>@stdout}}]
if [catch {open "| $prog $redir" r} pH] {
will work with windrop 1.6.17 and 1.6.18cvs [but for read acess mode r only :/].

I think the problem is about the windrop/cygwin/tcl version? Is there another solution then using windrop 1.6.16?

DeKus: May I pm you on irc?
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[demond]

report the bug to windrop dev folks, we can't help you any further
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