Changeset 1279 for branches/New_Config_Format-branch/gsdl/lib/gsdltools.h

Timestamp:

2000-07-13T10:21:53+12:00 (24 years ago)

Author:

sjboddie

Message:

merged changes to trunk into New_Config_Format branch

File:

• branches/New_Config_Format-branch/gsdl/lib/gsdltools.h (modified) (1 diff)

branches/New_Config_Format-branch/gsdl/lib/gsdltools.h

@@ -38 +38 @@
 bool littleEndian();
 
+// escapes '\' and '_' characters with '\'
+// note that single '\' characters occurring 
+// naturally within text (or filenames!!) will
+// be removed by the dm macro language
+text_t dm_safe (const text_t &instring);
+
+
+// gsdl_system spawns a completely separate program (i.e. the calling
+// program continues and terminates normally). Arguments containing special
+// characters (e.g. '&') should be quoted with ""
+
+// on unix systems youcan get the same effext as this function by doing a
+// system call and putting the spawned process in the background
+// (e.g. system (funcname options &);
+#if defined (__WIN32__)
+void gsdl_system (char *cmd, ostream &logout);
 #endif
+
+#endif