SPUG: backticks, system, and ImageMagick

[Richard Wood]

Thanks for your ideas.  

I didn't get any of them to work yet, but I found that
if I specified -verbose on the identify command, the
output went to STDOUT and I was able to capture it.

Regards,

Rich Wood

--- Colin Meyer <cmeyer at helvella.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:14:57PM -0800, Richard
> Wood wrote:
> > I am a unix kind of guy trying to function in a
> win98
> > situation.
> > 
> > I am having a problem with backticks and I am
> looking
> > for new ideas on what it could be.
> > 
> > I am running in a MSDOS window trying to execute
> some
> > ImageMagick commands from perl.  The path to the
> > ImageMagick bin directory in included in my PATH
> > environment variable.  I can issue all of the
> > ImageMagick commands from the command line
> (mogrify,
> > identify, composite, and montage and they all
> return
> > the usage for the command.  When I write a very
> simple
> > script such as:
> 
> Another approach to using ImageMagick tools from
> within Perl 
> programs is to use the Image::Magick module.  This
> provides a
> nice, object oriented interface to all of the
> functionallity
> of the ImageMagick library.  Error conditions are
> available
> via return values of method calls instead of STDERR
> capturing
> trickery.
> 
> For more info, see:
>
http://www.simplesystems.org/ImageMagick/www/perl.html
> 
> The installation section claims that you can install
> it on Win95, though
> I only have experience using it on Linux and Solaris
> systems. I seem to
> remember that installing it wasn't quite as straight
> forward as most
> modules, but don't recall the exact trouble. I think
> that it was getting
> a compatible version of the ImageMagick library
> installed.
> 
> Have fun,
> -C.


=====
Richard O. Wood
Wildwood IT Consultants, Inc.
wildwood_players at yahoo.com
425.941.9437

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