On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:32:59 -0500, John Pierce  
<john.raymond.pierce at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not trying to point you another direction, but .NET wraps this up
> nicely and with our Squeak.NET package your code would look like:
>
I want to keep the installer small. Which sort of rules out adding .NET  
runtime for the handful of simple functions I'm going to need - I rather  
write a plugin if FFI can't handle this...