Re: [photran] Re: myprog < input.file in photran??? (Luud Heck)

[Craig Rasmussen <crasmussen@xxxxxxxx>]

This would be a good question to put to the CDT information list as  
Photran inherits all of this functionality from CDT and the Eclipse  
platform.

Cheers,
Craig



On Aug 29, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Chris Malins wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am certainly not an expert, or even very experienced user, but I  
> have been working against this self same problem today and have  
> been able to get photran to accept my input file using '<  
> input.file' in the (x)arguments box.
>
> One problem I created for myself was by trying to put the input  
> file name in the Common -> Standard input and output -> File box.  
> This had caused standard output of an abortive run to be written  
> over my input file, and therefore prevented the program from  
> running properly with the input filename in the arguments box.  
> Could you have done this?
>
> I see what Luud is trying to say, but I would persevere a little as  
> I have made this work for me, leading me to believe that it is  
> indeed possible!
>
> Yours,
>
> Chris
>
>
> > ------------------------------
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:47:09 +0200
> > From: "Luud Heck" <luud.heck@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [photran] myprog < input.file in photran???
> > To: "Photran Information" <photran@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > On 8/28/06, Thomas Reichardt <thomas.reichardt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
> > wrote:
> > > Dear photran users
> > >
> > > with a terminal I can execute a program with "myprog < input.file".
> > >
> > > How does this work in Eclipse(Photran)?
> > >
> > > I have tried it by inserting "< input.file" in run -> (x)arguments,
> > > unfortunately without success.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Thomas
> > Hi Thomas,
> > Indeed this does not work in Eclipse. Note that the < sign is
> > interpreted by the command shell and it will open the file for you  
> > and
> > pass it to stdin of your program. The arguments that you set in
> > Eclipse are just that, arguments which are not processes by a command
> > shell. So a way around this is to change your program to accept a
> > filename as argument and open it yourself and default to stdin if no
> > argument is given in order to keep the orinal functionality as well.
> > Good luck.
> > Luud
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