program system command

Syntax

program system keyword ...

Send commands to DOS.

Note

As with all program commands, use of the command word program is optional; program system and system are both valid.

This command allows the user to access the underlying command-driven operating system (DOS, under Windows). The contents of s and other string tokens are passed directly to the system, and the text output is redirected to the screen. Some common commands used in place of s are dir, copy, del, etc. The following optional keywords apply.

s ...

If a string is given, this will be passed directly to DOS. Multiple strings will be concatenated and passed as multiple tokens.

clone s ...

If the clone keyword is given, then a clone of the current program is spawned, and the contents of s are passed as arguments.

timeout i

If the timeout keyword is given, i is the number of seconds the code will wait for the process to complete before shutting down the process and moving on. If i = -1, the code will wait forever. If i = 0, the code will spawn the process and move on immediately, leaving the process to run in parallel. In this last case, text output from the program will not be captured. This option can be used with either the s option or the clone option.

Warning

Do not use these commands to modify files that FLAC3D is currently reading.