The system Library

The System library exports the following modules:

• The date Module
  • Introduction
  • Representing dates and times
  • Representing durations
  • Performing operations on dates and durations
  • Extracting information from dates
  • Formatting Dates
  • Parsing Dates
  • The date module
• The locators Module
  • Introduction
  • The LOCATORS module
• The file-system Module
  • Introduction
  • Types specific to file system operations
  • Manipulating files
  • Manipulating directories
  • Finding out file system information
  • Finding out file information
  • The FILE-SYSTEM module
• The operating-system Module
  • Introduction
  • Manipulating environment information
  • Running Applications
  • Manipulating application information
  • Working with shared libraries
  • The operating-system module