From: Steve Gonedes
Subject: Re: Lisp Shells (Re: LispOS?)
Date: 
Message-ID: <m2hfw5to6w.fsf@KludgeUnix.com>
Marco Antoniotti <·······@copernico.parades.rm.cnr.it> writes:

< > Is there even a way to execute external commands? If so, what is it? :)
< > 
< 
< Each CL implementation has a way to execute commands. In CMUCL you use
< EXT:RUN-PROGRAM.
< 
< Maybe a nice wrapper package for all the implementations would be nice
< to have.
< 
< Cheers

Maybe doing a direct ff interface to an execve-like system call would
be more beneficial? I am thinking of the ability to pass an
environment explicitly to the process. How would you handle
redirection of input and output?

The globbing of file names would certainly be a pain though,
especially with completion.