Problems using CALL command

Hello, I think a lot of people already discussed about this problem, but over internet, forum, etc... I could not find any resonable solution. The problem is Rebol open a new command window every time I call that command, eve if I want to redirect in/out/err somewhere else. I found a solution for Windows, since someone wrapped a dll function to directly call an external command. But... is there any way to solve it inside Rebol self (a method that works in Win, Linux, Mac)? Does Carl modify this function to work in a different way for Rebol 3.0? This is very important for me, since I'm creating a shell using Rebol, but it is very annoying to see a new command window everytime a call a ""ping" command! :-) Thank you! -- --Alessandro

Hi Alessandro, AM> The problem is Rebol open a new command window every time I call that AM> command, eve if I want to redirect in/out/err somewhere else. ... AM> Does Carl modify this function to work in a different way for Rebol 3.0? It's very important to me too. I use Gabriele's mod of DocKimbel's code very heavily, and would be *very* happy to see REBOL handle this better, natively, under R3. There's no way to work around it with the native call under R2. I think REBOL is, or could be, a great tool for writing pipe and filter style apps, but we need a good model implementation and maybe some other pieces built in to make it quick and easy. -- Gregg

Yep, it's very important to sort this out. If a lot of REBOL's work is going to be farmed out to cross-platform, third-party tools (such as ImageMagic), REBOL needs to be made to work as seamlessly with them as possibly. It'll be bad enough to have to tell people that yes, REBOL's nice and small, but, err, yes, you also have to install 30 megs of X, Y and Z programs from elsewhere, never mind that you might have to spend days getting them to talk nicely with REBOL. -- Carl Read. On Monday, 16-July-2007 at 0:11:51 Gregg Irwin wrote,