Re: process* in MSDOS (Win 95) ?

[Matthew Flatt <mflatt@cs.utah.edu>]

Quoting John Clonts:
> (define cmd "d:\\djgpp\\johnsrc\\misc\\a.exe")
> (define ports (process* cmd))
> (define (status) ((list-ref ports 4) 'status))
> (define (readnext)(read (car ports)))
> 
> > (status)
> done-ok
> > (readnext)
> #<eof>
> 
> 
> (My a.exe writes "hello\nworld" to stdout).
> 
> Is this a limitation, bug, or am I misusing this facility in some way?

It should have worked.

a.exe flushes its output before exiting, right? (Of course, if it's a C
program using stdout, then the C library would take care of that.)

Otherwise, I'm out of ideas. Certainly it works for me in 102, and I'm
farily certain it worked in 101.

Matthew