[Gcl-devel] ltk

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Michael,

> > The sweet part about this work is that it is all common lisp except
> > for one function that runs a program and captures the i/o stream.
> > I believe GCL has that function somewhere. 
> 
>   I think I also saw this function somewhere. GCL has two functions -
>   one well known (si::system) but unable to capture io, an one hidden,
>   who is able to capture the stream - I have to dig out the later and
>   either implements its features as keywords to si::system (to rewrite
>   the hidden one in Lisp) or patch my ASDF to use the unknown one.
> 
>   Lets look, how RUN-PROCESS works out - its compiled but does'nt contain
>   anything, because its commented because RUN_PROCESS is only #define'd
>   in h/mac2.h, h/bsd.h and h/mingw.h but not in h/linux.h ... ?
> 
>   BTW: does anyone know what KCLOVM for multiprocessing is/was ?

VM/370 was IBM's virtual machine operating system. 
KCL ran on it at one point in the past. 
KCL was the precursor to AKCL.
AKCL was the precuror to GCL.
KCLOVM was likely part of the VM/370 port.

Tim