robertgarvin@bellsouth.net wrote:

When you said this: "basically (running as root) telling [shell] to run scripts" what did you mean? by shell did you mean the command prompt? or what? is there a [PD] object that is called shell? lemme know.. this would be a great thing..

when text on this list appears within square brackets like [f] it usually means the pd-object of the given name. (because it kind of looks like a pd-object) there are when someone types [bla( or [bla< they usually refer to a pd-message with the given content (because the message-box looks similat) note that some people use | instead of []

apart from that: yes there is a [shell] object, which lets you execute shell-scripts. it is part of the ggext-library.

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