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I have a program written in MS-FORTRAN which runs another program as a child and
needs to redirect the screen output of the child --- currently to NUL, but it is
envisaged allowing to a file.

I am doing this via

     I = SYSTEM('prog > NUL'C)

which is the documented in the MS-FORTRAN ``Advanced Topics'' and uses the
MS-C system call.

Now, the program I am running as a child uses a large amount of memory (about
400K), so I have used the SPAWNO replacement for the system call (speaking as a
satisfied user, that's a great package BTW).

Now, because of the size of the child, I would prefer to be even more miserly
with memory, and do without losing even the 3K or so which COMMAND.COM takes up
because of the system call. So I would prefer to do something along the lines of

      CALL redirect_output(file_or_device)
      I = spawnlpe(args)


To make things more difficult, I do not have a MS-C compiler handy (for wierd
and wonderful admin reasons we use Turbo/Borland C and MS-FORTRAN around here),
so I can't use solutions which have been given in a similar thread recently on
redirecting input and output, unless there is a good way to access Turbo C from
MS-FORTRAN.

Any advice/pointers/RTFM's will be much appreciated.

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Robert O'Dowd                              Phone  : +61 8 259 7132
Bldg. 64 TSAN,  AS/MOD                     Fax    : +61 8 259 6104
P.O. Box 1700                              E-mail : roo@dstos3.dsto.oz.au
DSTO Salisbury, South Australia               OR    roo@dstos3.dsto.gov.au
                                              OR    roo@mod.dsto.gov.au
Disclaimer: Opinions above are MINE, and probably worth what you paid for them.