At 02:06 PM 1/7/2002 -0800, Brent Dax wrote: >stdio is pretty std, right? That ought to be enough for Configure--we >can compile a stdio.ops into miniparrot. I doubt we'll need the full >ParrotIO subsystem just for building. The most complicated thing we'll >have to do is probably backticks, and that can be easily emulated with >system() and redirection. (We'll also have to do regex matches against >the backticks, but I'm working on that one. ;^) )
Backticks are trickier than you might think. For the build, though, plain system is sufficient, which is good. :) Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk