Interaction with the Operating System, Subprocesses, Pipes: This examples shows

• how to extend MINERVA with the subprocess invokation
• how to invoke the e.g. the operating system shell
• how to work with input and output streams
• how to compile and link the extension
• how to execute this as standalone

The MINERVA source programs are example.min and os.min and ls.min

Note that subprocess execution may depend on the host operating system. Some of the examples use path names that may differ from yours. Note that some implementations of Java have bugs that prevent proper execution of subprocesses.

Refer to 'Compile', 'Go' and the other files of this directory for details.

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