Re: runtime.exec()

Hi,
never tried on the AS/400, but I think you should start a runtime environment 
linke CMD.EXE on Windows.

Ciao.

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 06:57:58 -0500, Urbanek, Marty wrote:

>How do I use runtime.exec() on iSeries? I've read several web articles but I
>still don't undertand and can't get it to work.

>Let's say I want to do "ls >mylist.txt".

>Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
>Process proc = rt.exec("ls >mylist.txt");
>int exitVal = proc.waitFor();
>System.out.println("Process exitValue: " + exitVal);

>This prints out an exit value of zero, but the output file is not created
>and a spool file is created with a CEE0020:

>Message . . . . :   This job is about to end.

>Cause . . . . . :   The job is being terminated because the job is capable
>of 
>  having multiple threads and the application has issued an exit(), abort()
>or
>  their equivalent APIs, an exception has occurred and is not being handled,

>  or a return from main() has occurred in a program that runs in a *NEW

>  Activation Group.


>Do I have to tell it to run qshell? I guess what I am asking is whether the
>commands I submit to exec() have to be CL commands or qshell commands.

>Thanks,
>-Marty
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