Re: RUN without clearing screen in 4GL?

briang@access.digex.net (Brian Gallagher) writes: >The RUN command clears the screen when it is executed, obscuring messages >that we display. Can this be disabled or kludged? How? >Thanks in Advance. > - Brian G. What RUN is doing is repainting the screen, since it doesn't know if the passed shell command did anything to it. I believe RUN ... WITHOUT WAITING doesn't repaint the screen, as well as runs the shell as a background process. There used to be a problem with the process dying if the parent (4GL) program exited before it was finished, so you should test that. Or ... you could call a c program that does an exec() on a passed string. This has proven to be somewhat faster than RUN for shells that require no screen interaction. ================ Dennis J. Pimple Informix CSE / Denver