> > Another thought, which I hesitate to even mention, would be to call the > > commandline tool via System.Cmd, pipe the results to a file, and read > > the file, and parse the results. Slow and ugly, but you could have it > > working in an hour. > > Hadn't even thought of that, must be my clean upbringing.
No need even to use a file; just have it output to a pipe and read directly from the pipe...
Like POpen for GHC/Posix? I'm having some trouble getting this to work for Hugs/Windows (even though the basic piping code for Windows is demonstrated to work).
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