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From: murray@ils.nwu.edu (Thomas Murray)
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Subject: Re: call C proceudre from Lisp
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Date: 25 Apr 91 14:00:59 GMT
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In-reply-to: tl@tenacity.cs.uchicago.edu (Teng Li)

If all you need to do is run shell commands, another option to writing
foreign function calls would be to use the lisp function that executes
shell commands, if there is one in your dialect of lisp.  In Lucid,
there are two of these, 'shell', and 'run-program', both of which work
rather nicely.

Hope this helps.

-tom murray