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[Robert Ransom <address@hidden>]

Lamar, Robert wrote:
> >> But under certain installations, TeXmacs **reports** [emphasis 
> added] receiving data looking like this:
> >>
> >>   ... (tuple #{12}# "") (tuple #{13}# "") ...
> >
> > Is this the raw text sent to TeXmacs, or was this read as a Scheme 
> datum (using the version of the Guile parser TeXmacs was linked to) 
> and then displayed?  The TeXmacs binary provided by Fedora 7 is 
> dynamically linked to the distribution's version of Guile, while a 
> statically linked TeXmacs binary would include the version of Guile 
> installed on the computer on which it was compiled, possibly with a 
> different parser.
>
> I agree with your added emphasis.  :c)  I am only reproducing the text 
> that TeXmacs prints to stdio, not the data which passes from the 
> plugin binary to TeXmacs.  The way to obtain that data is not obvious 
> to me.
One way would be to run the output of the external program through the 
Unix command tee.
> The Guile version issue sounds like a distinct possibility, but I must 
> confess that I am just learning details of Scheme as I explore this 
> issue.  Can you provide any hints on how I might explore this issue 
> from here?
First, look in the Guile "info" documentation for a Guile version 
information function (accessible to programs running in the interpreter).

Robert Ransom