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Re: Using WGET from basic

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In message <bcf6c7995c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>
          Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:

> On 11 Jan 2026 as I do recall,
>           Paul Stewart  wrote:

>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Recently started using WGET to fetch some files.
>> Is it possible to call this from a basic program and it mulitask in the
>> background?

> You need to launch that sort of thing in a taskwindow if you want it to
> multitask.  But then of course you will need some way to know when it is
> finished, because if it is multitasking that means that your program
> could also be taking other actions (i.e. receiving keypresses or Wimp
> messages) while wget is busy getting a file via the Web.

> !Infozip has a procedure called FNchildtask which launches a task (in
> the format "TaskWindow" plus command line options) and returns the task
> handle as the result of that function.
> It then listens out for the WIMP message TaskCloseDown (&400C3) with
> that task handle being broadcast, which means that the child task has
> finished and the application can now act upon its results.  You need to
> make sure that you have included message &400C3 in the list of
> user messages specified during the Wimp_Initialise stage, though, or you
> will never receive it.   :-)

Thanks to Kevin and Harriet,for your comments on this.  A bit more looking 
through the old CSA.programmer postings and the PRMS, and have doing what 
I was looking for.

-- 
Paul Stewart
Sent from A9home running RISC OS 4.42

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Using WGET from basic Paul Stewart <phorefaux@gmail.com> - 2026-01-11 17:11 +0000
  Re: Using WGET from basic Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2026-01-12 01:28 +0000
    Re: Using WGET from basic Paul Stewart <phorefaux@gmail.com> - 2026-02-08 16:47 +0000
  Re: Using WGET from basic Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2026-01-12 18:23 +0000

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