Subject: Re: CMUCL: How to call system functions 'sh' and 'getenv' from lisp? From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:02:03 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3217788122223617@naggum.net> * rem642b@Yahoo.Com | (in this FreeBSD Unix system with tcsh, if file already exists > outfile | fails, so the overall command doesn't do anythingi at all, so I need to | delete the old file before running the program from the shell) Use >! instead of >. This does not really detract from your main argument, though. /// -- The past is not more important than the future, despite what your culture has taught you. Your future observations, conclusions, and beliefs are more important to you than those in your past ever will be. The world is changing so fast the balance between the past and the future has shifted.