Subj : Re: JavaScript CLI shell - hooks and handles?
To   : Gordan <gordan@_NOSPAM_bobich.net>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Thu Feb 06 2003 08:39 am

Gordan wrote:

>Hi!
>
>What non-standard JS extensions are available on the CLI JS shell? I have 
>found that there is a way to read command line parameters, but are there 
>functions to provide stdin/stdout/stderr? Are there file I/O functions? Are 
>there built in network/web access functions of the lines of 
>XMLHttpRequest() that would allow downloading of external files?
>

You should try xpcshell.  It's built along with mozilla-bin when you 
build Mozilla-the-big-multi-app-suite thing.

/be

>
>I am aware of PerlConnect interfaces that I could use to write the relevant 
>functions in Perl, but that seems silly, as I might as well write 
>everything in Perl then, without bothering with JavaScript at all.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Gordan
>  
>

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