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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:59:44 -0500
- From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: emacs-18.59 pkg for NeXT posted
- In-Reply-To: <1992Dec13.025955.13216@stb.info.com>
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 13-Dec-92 Re: emacs-18.59 pkg
- for NeX.. by Michael Gersten@stb.info
- > >or (d) Rewrite EtermView.m to look for /usr/local/bin/emacs and then
- > >/usr/bin/emacs; better yet, have it search through current users' search
- > >path for 'emacs'....
- >
- > Or, better still, why not use the "system" call and let the shell find it,
- > or use "execvp/execlp" library calls (the 'p' means search the entire path)?
- > I'm suprised that more people don't use these.
-
- Those calls were I meant by "having it search through the users' search path."
-
- I wish that the NeXT had the "run" command. It has the same syntax as
- "system", but it requires an absolute pathname, as "run" does *no*
- searching through the path. It's therefore the fastest way to execute
- another program from within your program....
-
- -Chuck
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