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From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: "system" and "fexecl"
Keywords: Lattice Manx System
Message-ID: <620@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 90 15:45:22 GMT
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In article <19792@watdragon.waterloo.edu> apdonsig@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Allan Donsig) writes:
>A lot of PD stuff has come through lately (UUCP, plplot, yacc, etc)
>that was set up for Lattice C.  Alas, I am fortunate in that I have
>Manx (nothing implied here :-).  Can anyone comment on what things
>I should look out for when getting these compiled under Manx?

Good question. For starters, use the "+p" compiler option and link
with "-cl32" (and "-ml32" if math is used). That'll at least give you
the same compilation model that Lattice uses. Also the "edlib" functions
posted last year provide a number of useful library routines available
in Lattice/Unix libraries that aren't supported by Manx.

Not all of them, though...anyone know another source for Lattice/Unix
compatible library routines beyond what's in edlib?

>Specifically, I'm having problems translating lines of the form
>	system ("ls -l mydir");
>into the manx 
>	fexecl ("ls","-l","mydir");

For this particular example it would suffice to use the AmigaDos function:
	Execute("ls -l mydir", 0L, 0L);

This even supports '<' and '>'.
	Doug
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