Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]!
On 09-Ott-99, you wrote:
i> Those were the words of [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
i>> 1: how does one execute a system call? I need to print a file
i>> I retrieved from a http site
i> Short answer: You don't.
i> Long answer: It's not possible in Rebol/core, you'll have to
i> wait
i> for rebol/command, or something like that. Up to then,
i> just
i> save it, and use an external program. (Or build yourself a
i> print server, that talks tcp/ip)
But please notice that this limitation applies mainly to Windows
and MacOS only. On Unix and Amiga you can access most devices via
files; the only problem is that on Unix you can't ioctl(), so if
you want to access a serial device, you will be stuck to its
default values for bitrate etc. (which can anyway be changed with
setserial, AFAIK, if you're root).
People complaining about not being able to do lowlevel I/O, should
really be complaining about their OS being too limited.
Regards,
Gabriele.
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