<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>exec -- execute another program</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_exit.html">next</a> | <a href="_current__Directory.html">previous</a> | <a href="_exit.html">forward</a> | <a href="_current__Directory.html">backward</a> | <a href="_system_spfacilities.html">up</a> | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <div><a href="index.html" title="">Macaulay2Doc</a> > <a href="___The_sp__Macaulay2_splanguage.html" title="">The Macaulay2 language</a> > <a href="_system_spfacilities.html" title="">system facilities</a> > <a href="_exec.html" title="execute another program">exec</a></div> <hr/> <div><h1>exec -- execute another program</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>exec argv</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><tt>exec argv</tt> uses the 'exec' operating system call to start up another program, replacing the current Macaulay2 process. Here <tt>argv</tt> is a string, or a sequence or list of strings to be passed as arguments to the new process. The first string is the name of the executable file.</div> </div> </div> </body> </html>