[Haskell-cafe] ANN: FileManip 0.1, an expressive filemanipulationlibrary

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On May 2, 2007, at 7:00 , Claus Reinke wrote:

> my question. similarly for the unix dependency - it could be  
> inherent in the
> design, or an accident of the author's current platform.

The Haskell libraries don't currently provide a platform-independent  
way to do most file tests.  I discovered this while working on the  
file test operators in Pugs:  aside from some very basic tests,  
everything interesting requires the POSIX hierarchy (hence the unix  
package).

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