[Malvern] Tuesday.

[Chris Eilbeck]

> 
> I enjoyed the session at Phil's on Yuesday.
> Looking forward to the next two Wednesday  sessions.

Me too.

> In  both  the Pascal and  C  languages you can call in-line code, and
> also all the DOS interrupts (if you are using DOS).
> 
> When using Pascal or C  on  Linux,  can you  make calls  to external
> scripts, or to (for example) bash commands ?

Yes, using the system function call.  This is a fairly inefficient way to
go about things though.

> If you are running two simultaneous "terminals",  can they call
> each-other ?

You can have two processes which are attached to two virtual terminals
communicate in a large variety of ways, shared memory, fifos/pipes,
network sockets etc.  I'd definitely recommend Beginning Linux
Programming by Wrox Press.  I have a feeling you may have to abandon
pascal at some point though.  It's fine for standalone stuff but you
won't find many things you can crib directly for doing client/server
stuff unless you're using C or Perl, one of the more mainstream systems
programming languages.

Chris
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