Steel Bank Common Lisp

"Jonathan Johansen" <framlingham@...> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to automate some miktex/latex document creation using lisp, and
> would like to run command line programs like pdflatex.exe and makeindex.exe.
> I can get them to run with run-program, but I can't get them to run in a
> specific directory.  This causes the output files generated by them to
> appear in the sbcl directory, not where the source file is.  Is there a way
> to do this?  It would (I think) be effectively cd'ing to the right
> directory, but I have no idea how to do that in sbcl.

Try sb-posix:chdir.

-- 
Juho Snellman

>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am trying to automate some miktex/latex document creation using lisp, and
> > would like to run command line programs like pdflatex.exe and makeindex.exe.
> > I can get them to run with run-program, but I can't get them to run in a
> > specific directory.  This causes the output files generated by them to
> > appear in the sbcl directory, not where the source file is.  Is there a way
> > to do this?  It would (I think) be effectively cd'ing to the right
> > directory, but I have no idea how to do that in sbcl.
>
> Try sb-posix:chdir.

Thanks :).  Is there any easy way to figure this kind of stuff out?  I
notice that
there is a manual and a pdf version too, but it doesn't mention all of
this stuff or list all of the functions...

Thanks,
Jonathan

A newbie question:

Under SBCL 1.0.22 for Win32 (running under Windows 7 64-bit), the
following fails to list any files:

(sb-ext:run-program "cmd" '("/c" "dir \"c:\\Program Files\\*\"") :search
t :output t)

with the message that "The filename, directory name, or volume label
syntax is incorrect". However, if I remove the effect of patch
http://sbcl.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sbcl/sbcl/src/code/run-program.li
sp?r1=1.59&r2=1.60 "at Line 839" (i.e. not escaping spaces or quotes
under win32), then the result is a list of the files under "c:\Program
Files". 

Is this an old issue with an old solution?

Kindly, Mark Clements.