If you want to try and implement some of the System.Posix API using the win32 API, a good place to put that would be in the unix-compat package. Darcs repo: http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/darcs/unix-compat/ Hackage page: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/ package/unix-compat-0.1 It currently re-exports the unix package if available, and if not, tries to fake it using the standard libraries or sensible defaults. Using the win32 package would be a nice addition. /Björn On Oct 16, 2007, at 20:35 , Galchin Vasili wrote:

Hi Bjorn (and everybody),

What would it entail to get System.Posix working on Windows? Would a mininum requirement e.g. be teh installation of http:// www.cygwin.com? Or write a POSIX API to Win32 API binding? If I understand the problem, I wouldn't mind giving a run at it!

Regards, Bill

On 10/16/07, Bjorn Bringert wrote: On Oct 16, 2007, at 3:25 , Galchin Vasili wrote:

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Hello,

In a Hugs environment, I am able to import System.Directory but not to import System.Posix. Here is my environment ... .;{Hugs} \packages\*;C:\ftp\CatTheory\Haskell\SOE\graphics\lib\win32\*. I really want to use the Posix module. Help!!!

Kind regards, Bill Halchin

Hi Bill,

it seems like you are using Hugs under Windows. As far as I know System.Posix is not available on Windows.

/Björn

/Björn