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From: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Relying on ARP (was Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist (one among thousands!))
Keywords: popen, pclose, unix, arp
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Date: 4 Aug 89 19:15:34 GMT
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> > I've always wanted to be able to fopen("|lpr", "w"), for instance, to

> Since no one else has posted an answer (I'm sure they will), I guess 
> I'll do the honers. Unix has EXACTLY what you want. The system call is called
> popen! (Stands for Pipe? Process? open). Is has the following syntax:

You missed my point.  I know it's possible like that.  I want it to be part
of the file system semantics, so when I'm typing to a file requestor or
asked to supply a path, I can type |lpr.  I don't want to change every
program to look at the first character, if it's a pipe symbol turn it
into a popen call.

-tom