run hcicmd from tcl

[Mason Miller]

Is it possible to run a hcicmd command within a tcl proc?  If so how do you exec the command?

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[Charlie Bursell]

Windows or Unix?

On Unix simply exec it as you would any other command.

On Windows Tcl has a problem, its a windows thing 🙂

You can only exec .exe, .com, or .bat files.  hcicms is a er; script (.pl)

We created a command called hcicmdnt for Windows which you can exec directly.

For other perl (.pl) or Tcl (.htc) scripts you want to exec in windows you need to exec Tcl or perl and pass the full path of the script as an argument

[Mason Miller]

On Unix,  thanks I thought I tried that but a guess not. what about setroot and setsite?

[Charlie Bursell]

If you are running hcicmd I would assume the root/site is set

If from CRON, You can set it there

[Mason Miller]

Thanks very helpful.

[David Barr]

Just be aware that you probably won’t be able to use hcicmd to directly send commands to your current process. The command thread in a process can’t run while there’s a TPS proc is running, so you won’t get a response.

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