thanks guys. Phil's snippet in the archives was educational:
There are always variations of unix commands that will do what one wants.
sqb
On 29 October 2011 12:11, Phil Davis <rev...@pdslabs.net> wrote:
> You can get the Shell Command Help plugin from Rev Online. I use it almost
> every day. :-)
>
> Phil
>
>
>
> On 10/29/11 11:53 AM, Warren Samples wrote:
>
>> On 10/29/2011 12:59 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
>>
>>> on a side note regarding shell - I just ran this from the message box:
>>>
>>> put shell("man zip")
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> and got this text:
>>>
>>
>> Not an answer to your question, but that doesn't happen here running
>> Linux.
>>
>> Here is something from discussion of Phil Davis' Shell Command Help
>> plugin:
>>
>> http://lists.runrev.com/**pipermail/use-livecode/2011-**
>> January/151041.html<http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2011-January/151041.html>
>>
>> and the next few messages.
>>
>> Warren
>>
>>
>>
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