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Article #5642Re: Spawning processes in DOS
From: Matthew E Cross
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1991 23:55
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1991 23:55
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In article <1991Apr3.133226.22304@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> dougs@claude1.rchland.ibm.com (J Doug Smith) writes: -> ->____ -> ->I'm trying to write an application that will run another program and ->get that program's output so it can be displayed to the user (much ->like an editor runs a compiler and sends the compiler's output to the ->user). Does anyone have any Ideas on how to accomplish this? Execing ->another programs certainly is no problem, I just don't see how to get ->the output from that program. Well, one cheap wayto do it is to redirect the output to a file, then read in the file. This won't do if you want to do some interactive stuff, though. Does your compiler/library support popen()? -- +-------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | "The letter U has a lot of uses ... | profesor@wpi.wpi.edu | | I like to play it like a guitar!" +---------------------------------------+ | -Sesame Street | Make love, not War.. |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!m2c!wpi.WPI.EDU!profesor From: profesor@wpi.WPI.EDU (Matthew E Cross) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Spawning processes in DOS Message-ID: <1991Apr3.235500.6375@wpi.WPI.EDU> Date: 3 Apr 91 23:55:00 GMT References: <1991Apr3.133226.22304@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Lines: 19