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Re: [Chicken-users] Dumbass newbie questions. Sorry.


From: Neil Baylis
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Dumbass newbie questions. Sorry.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:46:58 -0700



On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Nicholas "Indy" Ray <address@hidden> wrote:
err http://chicken.wiki.br/man/3/Unit%20posix#pipes for the third link.

Indy

On 4/16/09, Nicholas "Indy" Ray <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 4/16/09, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
>  > First question: For various reasons, I can't switch to chicken 4 any time
>  > soon. But I can't find the eggs for 3.4 etc. Where are they?
>
>
> Chicken-setup will download the chicken eggs, the ref is here:
>  http://chicken.wiki.br/eggref/3/index
>
>
>  > Second question: What's the canonical scheme (esp. Chicken) way to do
>  > pexpect like things? I.e., spawn a long lived process, send strings to its
>  > stdin, and deal with what is sends to its stdout? Is there a library? An
>  > example?
>
>
> Not sure, but there are some process funcs in the possix unit:
>  http://chicken.wiki.br/man/3/Unit%20posix#processes
>
>  Additionally on opening a pipe:
>  http://chicken.wiki.br/man/3/Unit%20posix#processes
>
>
>  Indy
>

Thanks, I see the eggs now.

Re processes/pipes, I had found those by looking in the manual, but am not yet sharp enough in scheme to understand them. It looks as though (process...) is what I need, but I'm not sure how to use it.

Neil


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