[gambit-list] How to do pipe?

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Sun Jun 14 13:09:28 EDT 2009


On 14-Jun-09, at 10:59 AM, Lam Luu wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Is there anyway to open a pipe to a new process (On Unix)? You know,
> like popen in C. I have searched through the manual, but could not  
> find
> anything there.

Look for "open-process" in the manual.  If your Gambit is properly  
installed, just do (help open-process).

Here is a simple example on Unix:

 > (read-line (open-process "date"))
"Sun Jun 14 13:07:57 EDT 2009"

Marc




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