I/O and Unix¶

oddball
        unix
clonable
        proxy
                unixFile (mixes in traits unixFile currentOsVariant)

The oddball object unix provides access to selected Unix system calls. The most common calls are the file operations: creat(), open(), close(), read(), write(), lseek() and unlink(). tcpConnectToHost:Port:IfFail: opens a TCP connection. The select() call and the indirect system call are also supported (taking a variable number of integer, float or byte vector arguments, the latter being passed as C pointers). unixFile provides a higher level interface to the Unix file operations. The oddball object tty implements terminal control facilities such as cursor positioning and highlighting.

Relevant oddballs:

stdin, stdout, stderr	standard Unix streams
tty	console terminal capabilities

Modules: unix, stdin, tty, ttySupport, termcap