Is there a Scheme equivalent to SBCL's run-program?

Question

I can run (run-program "/usr/ls" '()) in SBCL. Is there an equivalent in any Scheme implementation?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 06 '11 at 18:57

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GNU Guile also supports system and other related functions (such as OS-level fork and exec).

answered Feb 06 '11 at 18:57

Greg Hewgill

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 06 '11 at 18:49

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PLT/Racket supports system, in different versions.

answered Feb 06 '11 at 18:49

Martin v. Löwis

perfect! That works great. I wanted to to a program to learn from from started a program at the end. – Isaiah Feb 06 '11 at 19:07

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 07 '11 at 11:19

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Chicken has system as well. In Gauche it's called sys-system.

answered Feb 07 '11 at 11:19

Hans Nowak

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