>>>>> "Gisle" == Gisle Sælensminde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    Gisle> On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Raymond Toy wrote:
    >> 
    >>>>>>> "Gisle" == Gisle Sælensminde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
    >> 

    >> Could you describe these changes?  I'm curious to know what has
    >> changed that caused problems for you.

    Gisle> After more checking I found that you are right. The difference in 
behaviour
    Gisle> before and after the upgrade was caused by other factors in the 
account
    Gisle> setup. The old setup inherited a path with "." in it. When runing 
both versions
    Gisle> in both environments, the behavior is the same. Sorry for that.

Whew.  That's good to know.

    Gisle> On the other hand, I find the behaviour nonintuitive, since 
./dir/myprog
    Gisle> would run the program in a shell regardless of path, while the 
equivalent
    Gisle> (ext:run-program "./dir/myprog" '()) won't, unless you have "." in 
the path.
    Gisle> (Which you don't want in most cases)

This is something that could be added if people really want this
ability.  I've never had a need for it, myself, though.

Ray



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