Re: Launching other applications from MCL

[straz@cambridge.apple.com (Steve Strassmann)]

At  2:07 PM 9/30/93 +0100, Massimo Marino wrote:
 >Hi,
 >I am not a deep expert of low-level programming in MCL, so this
 >is my problem: let suppose I have an MCL generated application
 >and another application (perhaps a C-based application, but this
 >does not matter) that I want to launch from the MCL appl.:
 >how can I do this in MCL ?
 >
 >Since I am not in the mailing list of info-mcl yet, please
 >send any answer directly to me, as well.
 >
 >Thanks, Massimo Marino

Check out processes.lisp, avaliable by anonymous ftp from
cambridge.apple.com:/pub/MCL2/contrib/

It defines some handy relevant functions, including:

(launch-application <filename>)

(select-process <application-signature>)