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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: dosread.c again
Message-ID: <6677@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 25 Oct 89 16:40:09 GMT
References: <699.2545546D@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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I asked:

	"How do you do popen on a PC?"

In article <699.2545546D@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
> You use the "popen" library that was posted for DOS a while back in
> comp.sources.misc.  I've used it to port several Unix programs to DOS
> that would have required a major re-write if I didn't have popen().

That handles the case where you're using pipes like temp files, but
what about interactive pipes? What about stuff too big to fit on disk?
-- 
Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-'
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