[Jprogramming] Spawning Process in Windows

[Devon McCormick]

Also, there's "zip" addons: arc/ziptrees and arc/zip/zfiles'.

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Alex Rufon <alex_rufon at ist-systems.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is a bit embarrassing but I'm a bit lost  navigating the J Software
> website.
>
> You see, I need to execute a command line application from a J session and
> I found this area in the J website:
> http://www.jsoftware.com/help/user/script_task.htm
> It describes the verbs "task", "spawn" and "fork" which are exactly what I
> need. Unfortunately, I can't find any reference on where the source files
> are.
>
> An additional constraint is that my project is using J 504.
>
> Either way, what I am actually doing is trying to run execute "unzip.exe"
> from inside a J session (in Windows 2000 Advance Server) which I got from
> here: http://stahlworks.com/dev/index.php?tool=zipunzip
> The text file being sent to J has got around to 16MB (which is not a
> problem with J) and the web server is chocking and cuts off the web upload
> hence my J app is not receiving the file. My current solution is to zip the
> file from the client side and J would just automatically unzip the file then
> process it normally as it spawned.
>
> I'll still comb the net (and the jsoftware site) for solutions but any help
> is appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> r/Alex
>
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