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From: mimichae@westmont.edu (Michael S. Michaels)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta
Subject: Re: Running a system shell command in BETA
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Not sure if the following post made it through so I'm reposting this.

Michael S. Michaels <mimichae@westmont.edu> wrote:
>I recently downloaded the free Personal Edition of the Mjolner BETA
>system from: 
>
><http://www.mjolner.dk>
>
>I have been very impressed by it and by the BETA language that it
>supports.  Programming in BETA is a true pleasure.
>
>I do have one question, however, which came up while I was translating a
>script written in Python.  The script reformats the output from the 'du'
>command (I'm using Linux).  How do you run a system shell command and
>capture the output in BETA?  I took a look at the 'startUnixProcess'
>pattern in the 'unixinterface' library, but have yet to understand how
>to use it.  Am I on the right track?  
>
>In Python, this is done using the following imperative:
>
>   result = os.popen("du", "r").read()   #capture du's output into 'result'
>	
>Does anyone know how this would be done in BETA?
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Michael S. Michaels