[REBOL] Re: Commander.c adds Shell access for Rebol
From: gjones05:mail:orion at: 21-Mar-2001 6:38
From: "Frank Sievertsen"
> Hi Scott!
>
> > Thanks for the contribution. My C skills have grown very rusty (in
fact,
> > they've never been polished; the last C utility I wrote was 4 years
ago). I
> > have gcc 2.95.2, the "ming win" distribution for windows. The program
won't
> > compile; seems that I don't have the include file termios.h. Am I
missing
> > something obvious? If I have demonstrated just how clueless I am, don't
> > spend any real time answering, but if I am missing something obvious and
> > simple, I would appreciate a quick answer.
>
> Unfortunately I am not sure, if it will work with windows, since the
> console of rebol is allways a window (I think). Since I don't have a
> Windows computer, I can not try it.
>
> (Maybe the option "rebol -w" could help???)
> If it is possible to run rebol without opening a window and outputting to
> a standard output stream, you can try to remove the #incluce <termios.h>
> and all stuff that needs it.
>
> Since I am no windows programmer, I don't know if fork() works with
> windows. (This is the reason, why the program will not work with AmigaOS,
> too)
>
> Maybe someone else can help?
>
> CU,
> Frank
>
Thanks, Frank, that answers my question. I have not tried REBOL on an
alternate platform in order to see how it might be different. Thanks!
--Scott Jones