Re: Calling a unix command from Cocoa ?

FROM : ssudre2
DATE : Sat Nov 09 00:13:59 2002

On vendredi, novembre 8, 2002, at 07:59  PM, Robert Miller wrote:

> Hello ,
>
>     OK, here's a dumb question. Can anyone tell me if it is possible to
> call a unix command from within a running Cocoa application ? (in my
> case flex and bison) ?  And if so, what's the secret ? For some reason
> there doesn't seem to be any documentation or examples available on
> this topic unless I'm missing something which is entirely possible..

2 solutions:

- system();

- NSTask (in Foundation). Some source code using it to launch a perl
script:

http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Source/scheaderdocServices.tar.gz
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