running shell commands with gnu clisp

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Published on 2010-06-10T22:59:04Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 23:02 UTC
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I'm trying to create a "system" command for clisp that works like this

(setq result (system "pwd"))

;;now result is equal to /my/path/here

I have something like this:

(defun system (cmd)
 (ext:run-program :output :stream))

But, I am not sure how to transform a stream into a string. I've reviewed the hyperspec and google more than a few times.

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