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Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog

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In message <59d68649a5bob@sick-of-spam.invalid>
          Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> wrote:

>In article <mpro.ra2pxr01s2b8u07k5.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>,
>   Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 9 Apr, Bob Latham wrote in message
>>     <59d6672366bob@sick-of-spam.invalid>:
>
>> > 'Invalid Wimp operation in this context.'
>
>> Ah. Wimp_StartTask must be called from a Wimp application which is
>> already calling Wimp_Poll.
>
>> I think your options are either to look at the Arthur way of doing
>> stuff (fiddle with the environment and shift things around in
>> memory) or do without WGet.
>
>> If you're using RISC OS 5, could you use the built-in HTTP fetcher?
>> As a module called by SWIs, that might run as part of your
>> application (I don't know; I've not looked at how it works, so I'm
>> not sure if it expects to be called from a polling application or
>> not). If so, that would sidestep the problem of launching a
>> separate task to do the fetching.
>
>Thanks Steve.
>
>I did look into that but quickly realised this is beyond my baby
>steps.
>
>Must admit, it surprises me that fetching a file from the net is so
>difficult to do.

From BASIC wget is easy to fetch files from the internet I use the
followiong:

SYS "Wimp_StartTask", "wget ...

Whilst fetching the computer is single tasking,
>
>Thanks again.
>
>Bob.
>


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Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-08 12:07 +0100
  Re:Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2022-04-08 13:08 +0100
    Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-08 17:33 +0100
      Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2022-04-08 18:07 +0100
        Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-08 20:05 +0100
        Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-09 12:15 +0100
          Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2022-04-09 14:10 +0100
            Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-09 17:55 +0100
              Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2022-04-09 20:23 +0100
                Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2022-04-09 22:29 +0100
                Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-10 09:38 +0100
                Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-10 09:36 +0100
                Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2022-04-10 13:05 +0100
                Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2022-04-11 18:09 +0100
              Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2022-04-10 13:01 +0100
                Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-10 13:36 +0100
                Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2022-04-11 13:59 +0100
          Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2022-04-09 14:15 +0100
            Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-09 17:56 +0100
      Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2022-04-08 19:15 +0100
        Re: Problem returning from WGET from within an assembler prog Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2022-04-08 20:07 +0100

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