Peter M. Brigham wrote: > So the acid test is what works. Can someone please test it on a > unix machine and tell us what the format for the URL should be? > And whether all the cases for the file contents are covered?
OS X is a certified Unix, so as far as bash is concerned what works there will work on most Unix systems.
In general terms (read, "for programs other than LC") Mark spot-on with the "<class><colon><slash><slash><URI>" convention. But as in so many other areas, LiveCode seems a little different.
For file access on Linux (and Mac and Windows) I always use simply "file:/path/to/somefile" and it works well.
Back to the original power status question, oddly enough the file I/O routines LC uses don't seem to allow me to use the same URL syntax we use for files.
This works, though: put shell("cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/status") -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web ____________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode