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Top Forums Programming Works from console but not when clicked in KDE Post 302115138 by jasonkb on Sunday 22nd of April 2007 06:24:29 AM
Old 04-22-2007
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My guess would be that it worked but you don't know where it worked. Or that it failed because testDir already exists.
After reading that I did a search and lo and behold, when I execute from the console, testDir is created in the current directory. When executed from KDE, it creates the directory but in ~/ !!!


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try "perror()"
Thanks very much for pointing me to that function. It's really very useful. It actually tells you why something works or doesn't!

(just to clear things up, I am totally new to system programming being a java programmer... I have dabbled in Fortran but wanted to tackle Unix and C so here I am slaving away with a really really thick book... :-) Thanks for your patience.)

So my next question is:
Why on earth does it begin executing from home when it's clicked from another directory? Seems like a weird thing to do. Is their a function that can test where it was clicked from and to then change to that dir so it is now current?

You guys have been very helpful. Thanks.
Jason.
 

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radio(1)						      General Commands Manual							  radio(1)

NAME
radio - console radio application SYNOPSIS
radio [ options ] DESCRIPTION
radio is a interactive, ncurses-bases console radio application. OPTIONS
-h print a short help text. -d enable debug output. -q quit after processing the cmd line options, don't enter interactive ncurses mode. Only useful together with other options for obvi- ous reasons ... -m mute radio. -f freq tune the specified radio frequency (and unmute the radio). -c dev specify radio device (default is /dev/radio0). -s Do a scan for radio stations. -S Same as above + write a radio.fmmap with the signal for every frequency. You can get a graph for it with gnuplot (plot "radio.fmmap" w lin). -i Scan, write a initial ~/.radio file to stdout and quit. So you can create a config file where you only have to fill in the correct station names later this way: "radio -i > ~/.radio". See below for the config file syntax. CONFIGURATION
radio picks up station names and present stations from a config file. It can parse kradio (KDE radio app) config files, therefore it first tries the usual KDE config file location: ~/.kde/share/config/kradiorc. Failing that, radio tries ~/.radio (which makes things a bit easier for people who don't use kradio). The format looks like this: # KDE Config File [Buttons] 1=95800000 2=91400000 [Stations] 100600000=Hundert,6 95800000=Radio eins 102600000=Fritz 94300000=r.s.2 91400000=Berliner Rundfunk The [Buttons] section can have up to eight entries. That are the present stations, they get mapped to F1-F8. The [Stations] section maps frequencies to station names. The frequencies in both sections are specified in Hz. KEYS
X exit ESC,Q,E mute and exit. up/down inc/dec frequency pgup/pgdown next/previous station. This one uses the stations from the config file by default. When started with the -s option these keys will cycle througth the stations found during the scan. F1-F8, 1-8 preset buttons. Ctrl+L redraw screen. AUTHOR
Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1997-2001 Gerd Knorr This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER- CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. (c) 1998-2001 Gerd Knorr radio(1)
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