--- Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoting Camm Maguire:
> > ...
> > I see no such function in the standard, but am cc'ing Paul Dietz.
> >
> > I therefore would suggest (system (format nil "rm -rf ~s" x))
> > ...
>
> I am really surprised that Lispers do not find this sort of
> suggestion really revolting!
I do (well, frustrating anyway). But apparently it's harder than it
seems to deal with across all possible cases. Cross platform issues
can really be a royal pain in the neck, regardless of language - the
CONCEPTS seem to be different in some cases. Sigh.
> Surely the point of an operating
> system is to provide such services to programs at low level
> without resorting to command line interpretation to pass
> parameters and access such functions.
>
> .. there's got to, there's got to be a better way ...
I would tend to agree, but looking at comp.lang.lisp suggests that
handling directories over all possible situations is not as simple as
it seems - if you take into account a wide variety of file system
concepts, at least.
CY
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