On Feb 19, 8:03 am, quans...@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) wrote: > what's wrong with the tools-based approach > you're currently using? > > this may be hard to believe coming from unix, > but your approach is what many tools do. nobody > links to a tcs library. one uses the tcs(1) > executable. > > executables. god's answer to dynamic linking. > > - erik
just a matter of preference :-) I believe that 1) Its too much trouble parsing the output everytime. 2) Calling some function from an included library will be faster. ~Anoop