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Arc: Other OS Operations

Other OS Operations

The following are miscellaneous operating system operations.

Foundation system string
Executes the string in the underlying OS.

>(system "date") Sun Mar 23 13:48:46 PDT 2008 nil

quit
Exits the interpreter.

>(quit) --exits--

system string Executes the string in the underlying OS.	>(system "date") Sun Mar 23 13:48:46 PDT 2008 nil
quit Exits the interpreter.	>(quit) --exits--