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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Torsten Werner
  • Date: 2005-01-09 22:58:21 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.1.1 upstream)
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20050109225821-473xr8vhgugxxx5j
Tags: 3.0-12
http://bugs.debian.org/255869
changed configure.in to build scilab's own malloc.o, closes: #255869

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
 
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<!DOCTYPE MAN SYSTEM "../../manrev.dtd">
 
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<MAN>
 
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  <LANGUAGE>eng</LANGUAGE>
 
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  <TITLE>host</TITLE>
 
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  <TYPE>Scilab Function</TYPE>
 
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  <DATE>April 1993</DATE>
 
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  <SHORT_DESCRIPTION name="host"> Unix or DOS command execution</SHORT_DESCRIPTION>
 
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  <CALLING_SEQUENCE>
 
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    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>stat=host(command-name)  </CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
 
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  </CALLING_SEQUENCE>
 
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  <PARAM>
 
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    <PARAM_INDENT>
 
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      <PARAM_ITEM>
 
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        <PARAM_NAME>command-name</PARAM_NAME>
 
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        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
 
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          <SP>: A character string containing Unix sh instruction</SP>
 
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        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
 
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      </PARAM_ITEM>
 
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      <PARAM_ITEM>
 
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        <PARAM_NAME>stat</PARAM_NAME>
 
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        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
 
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          <SP>: An integer flag</SP>
 
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        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
 
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      </PARAM_ITEM>
 
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    </PARAM_INDENT>
 
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  </PARAM>
 
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  <DESCRIPTION>
 
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    <P>
 
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    Sends a string <VERB>command-name</VERB> to Unix for execution by the command interpreter (sh under Unix, or command.com under DOS). Standard output and standard errors of the shell command are written in the calling shell.
 
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    <VERB>stat</VERB> gives -1 if host can't be called (Not enough system memory
 
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    available) or the command interpreter return code.</P>
 
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  </DESCRIPTION>
 
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  <EXAMPLE>
 
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<![CDATA[
 
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host("ls $SCI/demos");
 
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host("emacs $SCI/demos/wheel2/Makefile");
 
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deff('wd=getdir()','if MSDOS then host(''cd>''+TMPDIR+''\path'');..
 
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                 else host(''pwd>''+TMPDIR+''/path'');end..
 
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      wd=read(TMPDIR+''/path'',1,1,''(a)'')')
 
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wd=getdir()
 
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 ]]>
 
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  </EXAMPLE>
 
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  <SEE_ALSO>
 
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    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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      <LINK>edit</LINK>
 
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    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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      <LINK>manedit</LINK>
 
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    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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      <LINK>unix_g</LINK>
 
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    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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      <LINK>unix_s</LINK>
 
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    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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      <LINK>unix_w</LINK>
 
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    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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      <LINK>unix_x</LINK>
 
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    </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
 
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  </SEE_ALSO>
 
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</MAN>