Drsbaitso

would it be possible. Shell is pretty damn useful, I must admit. it would be nice to have this sort of an extensible feature on wMax. Just wondering if its feasible, I wouldnt know fuck-how when it comes to this sort of thing, I just know bit-o-bash n' suchery. Maybe I am just mad.

shell-on-win-via-cygwin

If you don't mind using Java, i made some sort of a shell object for 

windows, called DOSHack. Still alpha, but working good for lots of 

things. I know there's a bug when you launch .exe from within max with 

it, but i'll fix it someday. You can find it here : 

http://francois.eudes.free.fr/maxmsp_temp_page.htm

Topher LaTopha made one too (check his share page), in Java also. Still 

not working (for unknown reasons) on my machine.

As Jasch made a registry quering utility (envvar.mxe) for retrieving 

Environment Variables the same way as my EnvVar class can do, i guess 

he's not far from coding one shell in c for win...

If you don't mind using Java, i made some sort of a shell object for 
windows, called DOSHack. Still alpha, but working good for lots of 
things. I know there's a bug when you launch .exe from within max with 
it, but i'll fix it someday. You can find it here : 
http://francois.eudes.free.fr/maxmsp_temp_page.htm

Topher LaTopha made one too (check his share page), in Java also. Still 
not working (for unknown reasons) on my machine.

As Jasch made a registry quering utility (envvar.mxe) for retrieving 
Environment Variables the same way as my EnvVar class can do, i guess 
he's not far from coding one shell in c for win...

Yeah, you can do a lot of this stuff by using Java in Max. Here's a 

copy of a message I sent to the list back in March of last year, on 

how I query the Windows registry to find the current VST plugin 

202 Hack / PC-1600 User / VSTi Host / OMS Convert / Jack OS X

Yeah, you can do a lot of this stuff by using Java in Max.  Here's a 
copy of a message I sent to the list back in March of last year, on 
how I query the Windows registry to find the current VST plugin 
location.

-- 
Dan Nigrin
Defective Records
202 Hack / PC-1600 User / VSTi Host / OMS Convert / Jack OS X
http://www.defectiverecords.com
http://www.jackosx.com


Funny we found the same things from Real Gagnon. Maybe we could send him 

a mail to inform he's contributing to the max/msp comunity, without 

In fact you can retrieve any kind of registry infos, and that's very 

usefull. But you can use the Real Gagnon's idea of hacking the cmd.exe 

as well. That's what i did to send all shell-like commands (mkdir, 

ipconfig, format C:, just kidding for this last one).

Funny we found the same things from Real Gagnon. Maybe we could send him 
a mail to inform he's contributing to the max/msp comunity, without 
beeing aware of :-D
In fact you can retrieve any kind of registry infos, and that's very 
usefull. But you can use the Real Gagnon's idea of hacking the cmd.exe 
as well. That's what i did to send all shell-like commands (mkdir, 
ipconfig, format C:, just kidding for this last one).

Heh, good to know that the method works for many things!

shell on win via cygwin?