Re: Long cmd line with Zoo: @<file_list>

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From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 03:40

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burleigh@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Frank Burleigh) writes:

>2 questions:
>1. Perhaps Zoo *does* have the @<file> facility and I am missing it.
>2. If not, can I somehow trick DOS into handing Zoo <file> rather than
>CON when Zoo tries to read from stdin?  Please keep in mind that Zoo is
>being executed via spawnvp() from within my program.

Why not "zoo [parameters] <filelist" That *should* work!

And redirection ought to work, though you may have to invoke a second
copy of the shell to do it...


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Subject: Re: Long cmd line with Zoo: @<file_list>
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