Dear Forum,
In his letter, Eric Rossin asked:
I would like to "Exec" a command (under Unix), and somehow get
the result of the command back into GAP. E.g., say the result
of the GAP comandExec("prog < file");returned a number, or even a list of numbers.
currently, there is no automatical mechanism for getting Exec results.
Your external program has to create a file like:
RESULT:=[1,2,3,4,5];
which will be read in by GAP by using 'Read'. the result can be obtained
from the global variable RESULT afterwards.
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