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When Who What changed 3-8-2005 AndrewH Tutorial: Executing External Programs 3-8-2005 AndrewH fixed spelling (minor) 3-8-2005 AndrewH changed from notepad to ppc386 for output 3-14-2005 AndrewH Improved formatting 3-14-2005 AndrewH Made room for other ways to launch a program other than TProcess (minor) 5-23-2005 Vincent fixed improved example 5-25-2005 Vincent Added proclargeout 6-11-2005 Michalis Links to pasdoc units using aspell 6-11-2005 Michalis Better wording (minor) 7-19-2005 Michalis Updated links to pasdoc cvs 7-26-2005 Kirkpatc TProcess (minor) 1-31-2006 Swen (minor) 4-16-2006 Junior 4-16-2006 Junior Reading large output 4-16-2006 Junior Hints in the use of TProcess 4-16-2006 Swen (minor) 4-16-2006 Junior change YOU to YOUR =) 4-17-2006 Swen typo (minor) 8-2-2006 Michalis Fixed links to pasdoc CVS 8-30-2006 Vincent Hints in the use of TProcess 9-1-2006 Vincent Introduction (minor) 9-15-2006 Vincent Reading large output 9-15-2006 Swen (minor) 9-19-2006 Vincent Introduction: added link to docs 10-2-2006 AndrewH Introduction - fixed wording (minor) 11-23-2006 Michalis Changed links to pasdoc units from CVS to SVN 12-3-2006 Marcov (minor) 1-30-2007 Vincent Introduction (minor) 4-29-2007 Dejvid Hints in the use of TProcess (minor) 6-7-2007 Vincent A Simple Example 6-7-2007 Vincent Reverted edits by Vincent (Talk); changed back to last version by Dejvid (minor) 6-8-2007 Vincent A Simple Example 6-8-2007 Vincent An Improved Example 6-8-2007 Vincent Reading large output 6-8-2007 Vincent Hints on the use of TProcess 9-3-2007 Vincent Using input and output of a TProcess: FIxed link. 12-9-2007 AndrewH TProcess added note about TProcess not being a terminal/shell (minor) 5-19-2008 Mattias2 TProcess 5-20-2008 Vincent TProcess 11-25-2008 GMorris Example of "talking" with aspell process 11-25-2008 GMorris Example of "talking" with aspell process 8-31-2010 Chronos 12-22-2010 AndrewH TProcess : Started section on replacing shell operators | < > 12-22-2010 AndrewH Replacing shell operators like "| < >": Added Sample program with some notes 12-22-2010 AndrewH fixed a couple of typos added delphi tag and fixed new section headers 12-24-2010 AndrewH How to redirect output with TProcess: improved the wording a little and added link to previous example 12-24-2010 AndrewH How to redirect output with TProcess (minor) 12-24-2010 AndrewH Notes: added more convincing (minor) 12-24-2010 AndrewH Why using special operators to redirect output doesn't work: linkified some text (minor) 1-4-2011 NickNameX SysUtils.ExecuteProcess 1-20-2011 Chronos indentation 2-2-2011 Chronos category 2-2-2011 Chronos 2-5-2011 Billyraybones Replacing shell operators like: added (minor) 8-4-2011 BigChimp SysUtils.ExecuteProcess (minor) 8-4-2011 BigChimp Reading large output (minor) 8-4-2011 BigChimp How to redirect output with TProcess: Added stderr info 8-23-2011 Sekelsenmat How to redirect output with TProcess 8-23-2011 Sekelsenmat Parameters which contain spaces (Replacing Shell Quotes) 9-3-2011 BigChimp Parameters which contain spaces (Replacing Shell Quotes): Added sudo example, thanks andyman! 9-3-2011 BigChimp Redirecting input and output and running under root (minor) 9-3-2011 BigChimp Redirecting input and output and running under root (minor) 9-5-2011 AndrewH Redirecting input and output and running under root: added som other info to improve the example 9-9-2011 AndrewH TProcess 10-3-2011 Marcov SysUtils.ExecuteProcess: kill createprocess link. It is platform dependent, and not recommended unless TProcess doesn't cut it. (minor) 10-3-2011 BigChimp Redirecting input and output and running under root (minor) 10-10-2011 Chronos as this page name is about execution in general all other variants shoul be mentioned 10-10-2011 Chronos Open web page in default web browser 10-12-2011 BigChimp Open web page in default web browser: At least get it to compile.. Doesn't work but it compiles. 10-12-2011 Mattias2 Open web page in default web browser 10-12-2011 BigChimp Open web page in default web browser (minor) 10-12-2011 BigChimp Open web page in default web browser (minor) 10-15-2011 BigChimp TProcess: http://lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,14961.0/ 10-15-2011 BigChimp An improved example (but not correct yet) (minor) 10-15-2011 BigChimp TProcess: Hopefully process large output example more clear. Needs to be tested on Linux/unix 11-21-2011 BigChimp Open web page in default web browser: Changed order, hopefully clearer (minor) 11-21-2011 BigChimp Redirecting input and output and running under root: poStderrToOutPut, mentioned policykit 11-21-2011 BigChimp Redirecting input and output and running under root (minor) 1-3-2012 BigChimp SysUtils.ExecuteProcess: explain what "hangs" means (minor) 1-3-2012 BigChimp Windows ShellExecute and WinExec: Removed superfluous reference to article (minor) 1-8-2012 BigChimp Reading large output: Specifying full path is not required as path will be searched (see FPC docs on tprocess). Tested on LInux with nslookup 2-7-2012 BigChimp Redirecting input and output and running under root: emphasis on better solution (minor) 3-23-2012 Zoran 4-5-2012 BigChimp Clearer distinction between tprocess and openurl 4-17-2012 Chronos opendocument 4-17-2012 Chronos 4-17-2012 Chronos 7-27-2012 Mattias2 Hints on the use of TProcess 8-18-2012 Marcov Windows ShellExecute and WinExec 8-18-2012 Marcov Unix fpsystem, fpexecve and shell 10-16-2012 BigChimp Replacing shell operators like "| " (minor) 11-2-2012 Chronos notes using template 11-2-2012 Chronos 11-2-2012 BigChimp Windows CreateProcess, ShellExecute and WinExec: typo, clarified example 12-29-2012 Bart Windows CreateProcess, ShellExecute and WinExec: fixed typo lazintf -> lclintf (minor) 1-25-2013 Wjackson A Simple Example 1-25-2013 Wjackson A Simple Example 1-25-2013 Wjackson A Simple Example (minor) 1-25-2013 Wjackson A Simple Example (minor) 1-25-2013 Wjackson A Simple Example (minor) 1-25-2013 Wjackson A Simple Example (minor) 1-26-2013 Nebula Windows CreateProcess, ShellExecute and WinExec: added ShellExecute info 1-26-2013 Nebula SysUtils.ExecuteProcess (minor) 1-26-2013 Nebula MS Windows : CreateProcess, ShellExecute and WinExec (minor) 1-27-2013 Nebula SysUtils.ExecuteProcess (minor) 1-27-2013 Nebula MS Windows : CreateProcess, ShellExecute and WinExec (minor) 1-27-2013 Nebula MS Windows : CreateProcess, ShellExecute and WinExec (minor) 1-27-2013 Nebula MS Windows : CreateProcess, ShellExecute and WinExec (minor) 1-27-2013 Nebula MS Windows : CreateProcess, ShellExecute and WinExec (minor) 1-27-2013 Nebula Overview table added 1-28-2013 Nebula Open web page in default web browser (minor) 1-28-2013 Nebula Open document in default application (minor) 1-28-2013 Nebula Alternatives (minor) 1-28-2013 Nebula Alternatives (minor) 1-28-2013 Nebula MS Windows : CreateProcess, ShellExecute and WinExec (minor) 1-28-2013 Nebula TProcess (minor) 1-28-2013 Nebula MS Windows : CreateProcess, ShellExecute and WinExec: MSDN link added (minor) 1-28-2013 Nebula Open document in default application (minor) 1-28-2013 Nebula Open document in default application (minor) 1-28-2013 Nebula TProcess (minor) 2-4-2013 BigChimp Overview : Comparison: Modal is more of a GUI term; replaced with synchronous (minor) 4-2-2013 BigChimp Open document in default application: Irrelevant info; if relevant/presented it should be in the opendocument docs (minor) 6-1-2013 BigChimp Parameters which contain spaces (Replacing Shell Quotes): language (minor) 6-1-2013 BigChimp TProcess: layout, removed superfluous remark on testing with cmd.exe 6-1-2013 BigChimp TProcess: Reworked parameters example from Lazarus to FPC - haven't tested it though; removed excess comments 6-1-2013 BigChimp Categories, see also 6-1-2013 BigChimp Fix first example. No need to make this more difficult than it is. 6-30-2013 Marcov Overview : Comparison: Runcommand added 6-30-2013 Marcov Runcommand option (minor) 8-1-2013 BigChimp Overview : Comparison 8-17-2013 BigChimp MS Windows : CreateProcess, ShellExecute and WinExec (minor) 8-17-2013 BigChimp Using ShellExecuteEx for elevation/administrator permissions: Removed superfluous info (minor) 8-17-2013 BigChimp MS Windows : CreateProcess, ShellExecute and WinExec: Reorder 8-17-2013 BigChimp Overview : Comparison (minor) 8-17-2013 BigChimp Overview : Comparison (minor) 9-28-2013 BigChimp (Process.)RunCommand: Language, layout, link 9-29-2013 Jwdietrich Categorization 9-30-2013 BigChimp grammar, links 11-16-2013 SkiyPRI Correcting Misleading Example 11-23-2013 Mauro.baso Open web page in default web browser 3-22-2014 Jwdietrich Freepascal -> Free Pascal (minor) 5-21-2014 Mattias2 An improved example (but not correct yet) 5-21-2014 Mattias2 Reading large output 9-14-2014 Socke Overview : Comparison: Converted HTML table to wiki table 10-18-2014 Mattias2 OS X show application bundle in foreground 10-27-2014 BigChimp (minor) 11-19-2014 Marcov TProcess: Put a link to runcommand before the first example, mention that the first "simple" example shouldn't be used in production. Too many people don't read on and have to find out the "large output" problem themselves 12-25-2014 Arneolav An improved example (but not correct yet) 12-25-2014 Arneolav An improved example (but not correct yet) 12-25-2014 Arneolav Reading large output 12-25-2014 Arneolav Reading large output 12-25-2014 Arneolav Hints on the use of TProcess 12-25-2014 Arneolav Hints on the use of TProcess 12-25-2014 Arneolav Run detached program 12-25-2014 Arneolav How to redirect output with TProcess 12-25-2014 Arneolav Reading large output 1-8-2015 Chronos 3-4-2015 Eny Add missing semicolon for Windows compilation (minor) 3-4-2015 Marcov More attempts to guide people to try runcommands first. (minor) 3-17-2015 Marcov RunCommand to top. (minor) 3-17-2015 Marcov MS Windows : CreateProcess, ShellExecute and WinExec: Mention runcommand (minor) 5-20-2015 Neilmsheldon Run detached program: GetEnvironmentString is 1-based (minor) 7-9-2015 Chrisr OS X show application bundle in foreground 7-9-2015 Chrisr OS X show application bundle in foreground 8-10-2015 Marcov Reading large output: Hopefully fixed it somewhat. Several updates wrt commandline had produced non working code 8-11-2015 Eny Simplify the code and make it working; remove irrelevant/out-of-context comments 8-11-2015 Eny Add RunCommand(...) equivalent for completeness (minor) 8-11-2015 Eny Only use Executable; remove references to Commandline (minor) 8-11-2015 Eny Remove reference to Commandline (minor) 8-11-2015 Eny Place commands in the right order (minor) 9-4-2015 Eny Remove irrelvant comments (minor) 10-15-2015 Kc97ble Example of "talking" with aspell process 12-3-2015 Skalogryz Overview : Comparison (minor) 12-3-2015 Skalogryz Overview : Comparison (minor) 12-3-2015 Skalogryz Overview : Comparison (minor) 12-3-2015 Skalogryz Overview : Comparison (minor) 12-3-2015 Skalogryz Overview : Comparison (minor) 12-3-2015 Skalogryz (Process.)RunCommand (minor) 12-3-2015 Skalogryz (Process.)RunCommand (minor) 3-5-2017 Rusty robot Hints on the use of TProcess: FindDefaultExecutablePath (minor) 9-17-2018 Marcov Using fdisk with sudo on Linux (minor) 10-19-2018 Michalis Replace PasDoc links to GitHub project 4-9-2019 FTurtle Deleted categories outside template 6-25-2019 Trev Fixed syntax highlighting (minor) 7-14-2019 Trev (Process.)RunCommand: Clarified shell built-ins 7-14-2019 Trev (Process.)RunCommand: clarified the clarification :- (minor) 12-22-2019 Trev macOS show application bundle in foreground: OSX -> macOS (minor) 1-26-2020 Trev Redirecting input and output and running under root: OSX -> macOS (minor) 1-26-2020 Trev Using fdisk with sudo on Linux: OSX -> macOS (minor) 3-10-2020 Marcov SysUtils.ExecuteProcess: mention runcommand 3-10-2020 Marcov Reading large output: FPC 3.2.0 related remarks. (minor) 3-11-2020 Marcov Reading large output: reworded fpc 3.2 section (minor) 6-5-2020 Trev macOS show application bundle in foreground: Added -W for open; correct -a description for open; added see also (minor) 7-20-2020 Marcov SysUtils.ExecuteProcess: next was obsolete after reordering (minor) 9-1-2020 Jesusrmx Using input and output of a TProcess 9-12-2020 Marcov (Process.)RunCommand 9-12-2020 Marcov Unix fpsystem, fpexecve and shell: shell is no longer in live versions of FPC. Keep it in the title in case people look for a substitute, and point to fpsystem as replacement in the tex.t (minor) 9-12-2020 Marcov (Process.)RunCommand (minor) 9-12-2020 Marcov Parameters which contain spaces (Replacing Shell Quotes): point to supported construct first. (minor) 9-12-2020 Marcov Parameters which contain spaces (Replacing Shell Quotes) (minor) 4-1-2021 Trev Bypass openurl redirection to OpenUrl (minor) 4-1-2021 Trev Fix typos (minor) 4-15-2021 Trev Reading large output: Fix example for macOS/Darwin/FreeBSD 6-17-2021 Alextpp Overview : Comparison: punctuation 6-17-2021 Alextpp Runcommand extensions: format example 6-17-2021 Alextpp MS Windows : CreateProcess, ShellExecute and WinExec (minor) 3-31-2023 Yourlahr RunCommand extensions (minor) 4-3-2023 Yourlahr RunCommand extensions (minor) 4-3-2023 Yourlahr RunCommand extensions (minor) 9-19-2023 Marcov Overview: Comparison (minor) 9-19-2023 Marcov Overview: Comparison (minor) 9-19-2023 Marcov (minor)
