ifconfig exits to Supervisor

Repro (tested on a Pi1 running 5.30)

1. F12
2. BASIC
3. *ifconfig

You’re now back at Supervisor and not in BASIC

EDIT: I’m being an idiot, I’ve just realised ifconfig isn’t a * command and is an app so will behave in this way.

ifconfig is strange. You can’t redirect its output in the usual RISC OS way.

ifconfig – like most of the Internet binaries it seems – is just another Absolute executable so unsurprising that it doesn’t return to BASIC.

Probably C, so use std indirections rather than RISC OS.

Might be worth extending BASIC’s OSCLI to act more like C’s system() call – option to shunt everything high, set new environment…

I’m being an idiot, I’ve just realised ifconfig isn’t a * command and is an app so will behave in this way.

If you need to shell out from BASIC to run another Absolute, ChangeFSI does just that by shunting everything high like Stuart says. A few of the build tools which are in BASIC do too. Just grab the Shell code, LIBRARY it then PROCShell(“ifconfig”) or whatever.