>2. It should be possible to explicitly select the shell
> used to execute the command. These days there are rather more
> popular shells than just sh and csh!
From REF SYSUTIL:
sysobey(string)
sysobey(string, shell)
sysobey(file, arg_list)
>3. It should be possible to capture the result of the command in
> a file/character-repeater/device. (Similarly stderr.) Note
As in run_unix_program !
>4. It should be possible to supply the command with a standard input
> that is drawn from a file/list/repeater/device. Note that
As in run_unix_program !
>3. It should be possible to execute sysobey in the background i.e. there
> should be an optional wait flag i.e. the general calling interface would
As in run_unix_program !
John.
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