Re: easy question: getting shell output?

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

   From: "Ciaran O'Riordan" <address@hidden>
   Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:02:26 +0000

   any pointers would be appreciated.

you can use (ice-9 popen) facilities directly, or higher abstractions.
for examples of the latter, see (ttn make-buffered-caller) and friends:

 http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/ttn-pers-scheme/dist/0.29/ttn/

make-buffered-caller is used in lots of places:

 http://www.glug.org/maint/cron-job-map.html

probably i'll contribute make-buffered-caller to guile at some point.

thi