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Re: [Slib-discuss] 'system feature?
From: |
Aubrey Jaffer |
Subject: |
Re: [Slib-discuss] 'system feature? |
Date: |
Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:49:03 -0500 (EST) |
| From: Kris De Volder <address@hidden>
| Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:19:23 -0800
|
| Still busy implementing Scheme / Slib.
|
| SLib appears to make use of a procedure called "system" which is
| provided by a feature 'system.
|
| I gather that it is a function to execute shell commands, but have
| found it rather challenging to find out any precise details of what
| procedures are supposed to be in that feature and exactly what they
| are supposed to do.
The system feature has only one procedure: system.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/slib_7.html#SEC267
If (provided? 'system):
Function: system command-string
Executes the command-string on the computer and returns the
integer status code.
http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-96/srfi-96.html indicates that "system"
has the POSIX functionality of the same name, but should have been
explicit about this. I will add a sentence to the SLIB documentation.