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From: Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@chemoelectric.org>
To: Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.com>
Cc: Tim Even <timreven54@gmail.com>, guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: system
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:12:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141020201218.GB5541@crud> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egu3ky1u.fsf@taylan.uni.cx>

Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.com> skribis:
> Tim Even <timreven54@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I've been using Chez/Petite Scheme's system command as a sort of
> > Scheme interface to Netpbm and other executables. Any information --
> > more than what is in the documentation -- on a Guile equivalent? 
> 
> Guile has a `system' procedure as well.
> 
> Note that its behavior does not seem to be one-to-one equivalent to that
> of Chez; you can refer to its documentation for details.
> 
> Taylan

The POSIX Processes section. There are system and system*, and POSIX
fork-and-exec primitives for the adventurous.

A string search on system* in the one-page html version of the manual
(my favorite version) should find it most easily.



      reply	other threads:[~2014-10-20 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-19 22:55 system Tim Even
2014-10-20  7:19 ` system Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-10-20 20:12   ` Barry Schwartz [this message]

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