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Re: Bug in system?


From: Daniel Hartwig
Subject: Re: Bug in system?
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 12:30:56 +0800

On 7 November 2012 10:49, Keith Wright <address@hidden> wrote:
>  > (define y (with-output-to-string (lambda()(system "date"))))
>   Tue Nov  6 21:42:41 EST 2012
>  > y
>   $2 = ""
>
> The stdout of the system call does not go into the string,
> why not?

with-output-to-string can not capture stdout, only output sent to real
scheme ports (via "display", for example).



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