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Program -- external program object

Description

A hash table returned by findProgram with the following strings as keys:

  • "name", the name of the loaded program. This comes from the first argument passed to findProgram. It is also what is displayed when printing a Program.
  • "path", the path to the program as determined by findProgram.
  • "prefix", a sequence of two strings identifying the prefix prepended to the binary executables. See findProgram, specifically the description of the Prefix option, for more.
  • "version", a string containing the version number of the program. Only present if findProgram was called with the MinimumVersion option.

See also

Functions and methods returning an object of class Program :

Methods that use an object of class Program :

For the programmer

The object Program is a type, with ancestor classes HashTable < Thing.