From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc1.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: CMUCL: How to call system functions 'sh' and 'getenv' from lisp? References: Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3217788122223617@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:02:03 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1008799323 193.71.66.49 (Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:02:03 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:02:03 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:22803 * rem642b@Yahoo.Com | (in this FreeBSD Unix system with tcsh, if file already exists > outfile | fails, so the overall command doesn't do anythingi at all, so I need to | delete the old file before running the program from the shell) Use >! instead of >. This does not really detract from your main argument, though. /// -- The past is not more important than the future, despite what your culture has taught you. Your future observations, conclusions, and beliefs are more important to you than those in your past ever will be. The world is changing so fast the balance between the past and the future has shifted.