[armedbear-devel] [armedbear-cvs] r13841 - trunk/abcl/contrib/abcl-asdf

[Mark Evenson]

On Feb 1, 2012, at 14:43 , Ville Voutilainen wrote:

> On 1 February 2012 15:25,  <mevenson at common-lisp.net> wrote:
>>                (truename (read-line (sys::process-output
>> -                                     (sys::run-program "which" `(,mvn-path)))))
>> +                                     (sys::run-program "which" `(,mvn-path))))) ;; TODO equivalent for MSDOS
> 
> See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/304319/is-there-an-equivalent-of-which-on-windows,
> where.exe does it on windows, where /? gives help for it, and for example
> 
> C:\Users\vilvouti>where notepad.exe
> C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe
> C:\Windows\notepad.exe
> 
> So just run 'where' for it and pick the first line if successful, I guess.


Unfortunately, "where.exe" was only shipped starting with Windows
2003 Server, so it doesn't exist on the stock Windows XP installation
that is presumably still the Armed Bear MSFT lowest common denominator.

But thanks for the link, as I couldn't easily find such an authoritative
answer in my searching.


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