[plt-scheme] getting console information using system

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Tue Nov 19 13:08:01 EST 2002

On Nov 19, Jefferson Provost wrote:
> You may want to try using (subprocess ...) or (process/ports ...) 
> instead.  They allow direct access to the subprocess stdin/out/err. 
> They're asynchronous, though, so that may not be what you want.
> 
> (not sure why both of these functions exist, btw...)

`subprocess' is the primitive function, `process/ports' is implemented
in mzlib/process.ss -- among other functions that are compatible with
the previous built-ins (and process*/ports would be closer to
subprocess, but also not the same: it wraps some port management).

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