[jamming] Executing shell command, save results to variable

[Kai Backman]

On 3/15/07, Chuck Homic <chuck at vvisions.com> wrote:
> Mildred wrote:
> > Also, Jam doesn't seems to evolve, why ?
> > For example I'm using FT-Jam but I wonder why the changes are not
> > integrated in Jam ... Why such enhancements are not integrated. is
> > there any special reason ?
>
> My guess is that Jam has been largely abandoned by its author.  That is
> why there are several branch projects that are attempting to keep this
> excellent tool up with the times.

 The blame lies with me. I offered last year to start working on
integrating these changes but have been exceedingly busy ever since.
Both Chris and David, the authors of the original and FT-Jam
respectively, are in agreement about the need to update, I've the one
who haven't been doing the actual work for it.

 Kai

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Kai Backman, Software Engineer, kaib at google.com