[191] in Zephyr_Comments
[changes to zephyr desc language] slightly misdirected mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Eichin)
Mon Mar 27 18:31:12 1989
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 89 18:30:45 EST
From: Mark W. Eichin <eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: zephyr-comments@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: djf@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Forwarded for future reference. Is anyone going to actually write a
design document for the new zwgc? Or are the language extensions just
going to get "hacked in" :-)
_Mark_
From djf@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Mon Mar 27 18:10:59 1989
SUM: <djf>->watchmakers
SUB: changes to zephyr desc language
o Provide a command which does fork(); execl(); rather than a
system(). This way no shell is started. Allow simple sdtin
and stdout redirection with the usual syntax.
o Provide a `write $message' facility for dumping text to files
o Provide a facility for generating names of temporary files.
-- djf
