Unix Interaction

Basic unix shell commands (pwd, ls, cd etc) can be issued from within ASAP. This allows the user to do things like look at files in the current directory. The shell command ``cd'' works within ASAP, allowing the user to change between data directories. Unix programs cannot be run this way, but the shell escape ``$!$'' can be used to run arbitrary programs. E.g.

  ASAP>pwd
  ASAP>ls
  ASAP>cd /my/data/directory
  ASAP>! firefox&



Malte Marquarding 2007-08-16