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Hiding the SHELL
Apr 13th, 2008 at 2:10am
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I'm using @SHELL to do file copying.  Is there any way to hide the command window generated by @SHELL?  Or should I use an alternate method to do a synchronous file copy?  I'm doing a large number of file copies, and I'm trying to get rid of the "flashing command windows" effect.
  
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Re: Hiding the SHELL
Reply #1 - Apr 13th, 2008 at 4:26am
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Check out Asynchronous shell -  @Asynchshell page 150 in programming guide, it may help you achieve your goal.
  
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Re: Hiding the SHELL
Reply #2 - Apr 13th, 2008 at 4:32am
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Have you tried to use the file i/o functions in some loops?

FileOpen, FileReadxx to read the original
FileWrite to copy the file to another location/name
FileClose, FileDelete to remove the original file?
  


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Reply #3 - Apr 13th, 2008 at 4:52am
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If you are using Sesame 2.0, you might also try @CreateAProcess or @RedirectProcess.

If you don't mind the command line window appearing once, but not flashing up and down, you can use the file I/O commands to create a batch/shell script that contains all of the commands you want to run as a whole and execute that using @Shell. That would take a bit of planning to make sure that you do not need to execute any SBasic between each of the component shell commands.
  
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Re: Hiding the SHELL
Reply #4 - Apr 13th, 2008 at 10:57am
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Thanks for all the suggestions.

[quote author=BOBSCOTT]Check out Asynchronous shell -  @Asynchshell page 150 in programming guide, it may help you achieve your goal. [/quote]

I tried that, but I couldn't get it to work with the DOS COPY command.  Besides, I have a requirement to do this synchronously.

[quote author=Bob_Hansen]Have you tried to use the file i/o functions in some loops? [/quote]

I'm sure that would work, but it strikes me as incredibly inefficient, especially for large files.

[quote author="The Cow"]If you don't mind the command line window appearing once, but not flashing up and down, you can use the file I/O commands to create a batch/shell script that contains all of the commands you want to run as a whole and execute that using @Shell. [/quote]

That sounds like the best Sesame based solution.  However, I don't think it's worth the effort required.  I'll consider it though.

I'll submit a feature enhancement suggestion to have an OS level FileCopy command added.
  
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