Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!electro!ignac
From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: re-direction
Summary: how?
Message-ID: <1602@electro.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 90 13:25:59 GMT
Reply-To: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON
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what is the "official" method of doing io-redirection in software.
what i want is for program A to run. It prints to the screen using Cconws();.
In the course of running A, it will invoke B, which also prints with Cconws.
Before B is called, the user has the option of redirecting B's 
output anywhere (screen, printer, file, modem). After B runs, control is
returned to A, which will then continue printing to the screen as before.

So the question i ask is: what is the proper way for A to redirect B's output
before B is invoked. Or is this even the correct way of thinking about this
problem. 

Any comments, code fragments, etc will be happily accepted and graciously
rewarded with thanx at this time!


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