[fpc-pascal]linux question

[A.J. Venter]

On Tuesday, 21 September 2004 06:55, Paul Aviles wrote:
> Forgive me for asking.. I need to do a few things, one is to run a shell
> script and invoque program "prgA" and pass the result of program A back to
> the shell script.  I guess I can do:
>
> BACK = /sbin/prgA; echo $?

>
> A) is that correct?
erm that's the EVIL way.
Try
BACK=`/sbin/prgA`

> B) how does prgA report the output back, using a simple write statement?
For this one at least, yes, I've done many of those using little FPC shorts to 
enhance shell scripts.
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul

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