Re: system

[Barry Schwartz]

Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <address@hidden> skribis:
> Tim Even <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I've been using Chez/Petite Scheme's system command as a sort of
> > Scheme interface to Netpbm and other executables. Any information --
> > more than what is in the documentation -- on a Guile equivalent? 
> 
> Guile has a `system' procedure as well.
> 
> Note that its behavior does not seem to be one-to-one equivalent to that
> of Chez; you can refer to its documentation for details.
> 
> Taylan

The POSIX Processes section. There are system and system*, and POSIX
fork-and-exec primitives for the adventurous.

A string search on system* in the one-page html version of the manual
(my favorite version) should find it most easily.