I hate it when something like this happens, and I am unable to do anything useful. 

I really need to put some of these M$ people (friends of mine, local yokals) to task on their promises of M$-Store Alma-mater pricing on the OS. With that I could at least add *something* to the dialogue by trying it... but alas. I have no money for Windows. 

It's just that it's an obvious lame duck which despatately wants money or death, and lately death. VMS ends up eating it when you look at the stock tickers now. Weirdly I still want to feed the poor lame old duck and the people who love it, but...

Sometimes it's actually advisable to give up. 

Maybe pick a different OS. Or invent one?

After all: an operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. 


Should there be one?

C

On Jul 11, 2012, at 6:04 AM, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 01:23:04PM +0100, Shaun Johnson wrote:
>> After lurking on the list for several years I finally have a project I
>> want to use Squeak for. This requires the execution of operating
>> system commands. I was surprised to find that the OSProcess plugin for
>> MS Windows is not part of the 4.3 All-in-One download wheras the the
>> Linus and MacOS plugins are included. I was unable to find any
>> repository of pre-built plugins, is there any such thing?
>> 
>> I finally overcame this problem by downloading the latest CogVM from
>> http://www.mirandabanda.org/ which does include the plugin and am now
>> happily proceeding with my project and with learning Squeak.
>> 
>> However I would like to ask that the next release includes this, in my
>> view, basic functionality for those of us stuck on MS Windows.
> 
> Hi Shaun,
> 
> The OSProcess plugin for Windows is rather limited in functionality, and
> has not been included in standard Windows VM builds. In the last couple
> of years, Eliot Miranda has made some improvements to it, and he now
> includes this in his Cog VM builds (as you have discovered). It has been
> a while since we have gotten a fresh Windows build for the standard VM
> (the one in All-inOne), but whenever that next happens I'll see if I
> get the OSProcess plugin included.
> 
> Thanks!
> Dave
> 
>