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000049_icon-group-sender _Wed Sep 7 12:01:41 1994.msg
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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 7 Sep 1994 10:10:44 MST
From: "Art Eschenlauer" <eschen@molbio.cbs.umn.edu>
Message-Id: <9409071701.AA01120@molbio.cbs.umn.edu>
Subject: What's wrong here.
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu (icon-group@cs.arizona.edu)
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 12:01:41 -0500 (CDT)
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I'm finally trying do use the system call on a unix machine. As a test,
I'm trying to list the directory into a file by calling 'ls > ls.file'
from Icon. Here are the vital statistics; why am I not getting the
system function to behave as expected?
Icon Interpreter Version 8.10. May 4, 1993
UNIX
interpreted
ASCII
co-expressions
direct execution
environment variables
error trace back
external functions
fixed regions
keyboard functions
large integers
math functions
multiple regions
pipes
string invocation
system function
> cat test.icn
procedure main()
system("ls > ls.file")
end
> icont test
Translating:
test.icn:
main
No errors
Linking:
> test
> ls
outline test* test.icn