[plt-scheme] getting console information using system

Thanks for that I have looked at it, and stolen it for my own evil uses.:)

rohan

Mike T. Machenry wrote:
> I wrote a module called proc-helper which is a wrapper around process. It
> provides among other things a function run (string? . -> . string?)
> which runs a command and returns the output. You're welcome to use it.
> It's on my web page <http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dskippy/code/>
> 
> The library is pretty minimal and ment to solve a particular problem I
> once had. So feel free to email me with bugs, additions, or changes you
> write.
> 
> -mike
> 
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:58:33PM +0100, Rohan Nicholls wrote:
> 
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>>Hey there all,
>>
>>I have a question about the (system ...) function.
>>
>>I am interested in getting the information that is returned from the 
>>system call, is there a way to do this?
>>
>>ie.
>>
>>(system "ls -a ${pwd}"), and what I am interested in using is the output 
>>that ls sends to console.
>>
>>I have been sending the output to a temp file and then reading that in 
>>but is there a more elegant way to do this, such as capturing the output 
>>port?
>>
>>Tia,
>>
>>rohan