Re: [Help-smalltalk] How does one fileout a class. Also is there a shell command call

[Stephen Woolerton]

> > As you can see, the code isn't being printed. What would be the 
> > command to print the method code in the Account class?
>
> That's a bug. :-)
>
> Are you using readline or not (i.e., can you edit the lines you enter 
> into gst using left/right arrow, and recall the history using up/down 
> arrow)?
OK. Am using standard 2.3.3 package in Gentoo Linux. Readline works in 
the st environment on this machine. I can contact the package maintainer 
- at least I know now I had the right instruction.

>     Smalltalk addSubspace: #Scripting.
>     Namespace current: Scripting.
>
> However, all classes can be obtained with "Object withAllSubclasses" if 
> you prefer a prefix.  (I just added "nil allSubclasses" to GNU Smalltalk 
> trunk, which will also give other classes that, like "Autoload", derive 
> directly from nil).
Thank you

> Also, GNU Smalltalk does not use the image that much.  You just build 
> the image on the fly, starting from a basic one, by loading one or more 
> files.
I see. That is a better way of doing it and easier to maintain scripts.

> > Thirdly, is there a way to make an operating system shell call and 
> > retrieve the output of the call. For instance is it possible to submit 
> > "ls -l /etc" to the operating system and to get the output of this 
> > command?
>
> Yes:
>
>     pipe := FileStream popen: 'ls -l /etc' dir: FileStream read.
>     pipe contents
This is gold so far as bash scripting goes! I was hoping there was a 
way. Thank you.