Use premade program inside a custom one in turtles

Hey,

I've recently started playing around with ComputerCraft and Turtles in Tekkit Classic (which means that it TurtleOS 1.3 I'm using) and I wanted to make some of my own programs in which I need to use the program "excavate"! Can I somehow program my turtle to excavate the number of times i type in, and then afterwards make it do something else?

Thanks in advance,
Magn0053

You're probably looking for shell.run. You pass it the name of the function and then a series of arguments.

for i = 0, 20 do
  shell.run("excavate", 10)
  for _ = 0, 10 do turtle.forward() end
end

It isn't always 'good practice' to use shell.run instead, but for something as simple as this it is fine.

SquidDev, on 02 September 2015 - 05:20 PM said:

You're probably looking for shell.run. You pass it the name of the function and then a series of arguments.

for i = 0, 20 do
  shell.run("excavate", 10)
  for _ = 0, 10 do turtle.forward() end
end

It isn't always 'good practice' to use shell.run instead, but for something as simple as this it is fine.

Thx very much, it works well! :)/>