[Icon-tech] wrapper for shell programs

[Ken Perry]

I will have a look and maybe write up a quick wrapper for this.
Ken

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From: icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws [mailto:icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws] On Behalf Of Christopher Moore
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 12:22 PM
To: Icon technical discussions.
Subject: [Icon-tech] wrapper for shell programs

One of the items which Ken raised on this list was writing wrappers for console programs.  This facility would allow us to port many console-based programs to the Icon / BP.

I'm attaching a very simple program written in Python which you could run in the console.
What I'd like to see is some code to run this directly from the Icon without having to log into the console and use the speakup review keys.

If we had a model of a basic console wrapper, we could apply the techniques to many existing applications.

Chris