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1/**********************************************************************
2 *
3 * gsdltools.h --
4 * A component of the Greenstone digital library software
5 * from the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the
6 * University of Waikato, New Zealand.
7 *
8 * Copyright (C) 1999 The New Zealand Digital Library Project
9 *
10 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
11 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
12 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
13 * (at your option) any later version.
14 *
15 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
16 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
17 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
18 * GNU General Public License for more details.
19 *
20 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
21 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
22 * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
23 *
24 *********************************************************************/
25
26
27#ifndef GSDLTOOLS_H
28#define GSDLTOOLS_H
29
30// don't actually use this but some windows
31// versions of STL complain about use of
32// bool keyword without it
33#include "text_t.h"
34
35// returns true if machine is little endian
36bool littleEndian();
37
38// escapes '\' and '_' characters with '\'
39// note that single '\' characters occurring
40// naturally within text (or filenames!!) will
41// be removed by the dm macro language
42text_t dm_safe (const text_t &instring);
43
44
45// gsdl_system spawns a completely separate program (i.e. the calling
46// program continues and terminates normally). Arguments containing special
47// characters (e.g. '&') should be quoted with ""
48
49// on unix systems youcan get the same effext as this function by doing a
50// system call and putting the spawned process in the background
51// (e.g. system (funcname options &);
52#if defined (__WIN32__)
53void gsdl_system (char *cmd, ostream &logout);
54#endif
55
56#endif
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