Clovertech | Skip Williams | Activity https://clovertech.infor.com/members/skip-williams/activity/ Activity feed for Skip Williams. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:50:59 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 5abf4b2f52ddd2b273721c67a973d7b0 Skip Williams replied to the topic Passing Linux variables to TCL in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/passing-linux-variables-to-tcl/#post-76553 Tue, 15 May 2012 21:23:00 -0400 Finally got it.   I used your suggestion David, but could not mix tcl and the ksh shell.  So wrote the order number to a file using the shell, then used tcl to open the file “set fp [open $fullpath r]” and retrieve it.  Seems like it would have been a lot easier to pay Meditech to map the order number to a field in the result message, huh 😀

]]> 0 3ef61c27775f7c14ba6a4fa2d273854a Skip Williams replied to the topic Passing Linux variables to TCL in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/passing-linux-variables-to-tcl/#post-76552 Tue, 15 May 2012 16:53:00 -0400 Good morning David,

I know this thing looks pretty weird locgically.  My manager has asked me to insert data from an order message into a SQL table and then later, when the results are returned, to query the table and get the order number to add back into the result message.  The outpatient syatem will not post results without an order number,…Read more

]]> 0 f7798254fd3d881667b8f9399412b46c Skip Williams replied to the topic Passing Linux variables to TCL in the forum Cloverleaf https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/forums/topic/passing-linux-variables-to-tcl/#post-76550 Mon, 14 May 2012 21:27:30 -0400 I appreciate your response.  I am not sure what I doing here, but went ahead and inserted the suggested code.  I think we are opening a channel and piping the value from the query to the variable fp.  There were no errors but the result was not what we hoped for:

ordernum was blank

when I did an echo with $fp:  fp = file4

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