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From: cs325ec@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Gregory Lemperle-Kerr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Input/Output redirection with Pexec()
Keywords: Pexec(), redirection
Message-ID: <1990May7.225712.26820@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 7 May 90 22:57:12 GMT
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adp1@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Andrew Pollard) writes:

>Hello,
> Please could anyone tell me how to redirect standard input and output before
>a program is Pexec'ed. As far as I can tell, as soon as the program is started,
>it resets its standard channels. I am trying to write a simple command shell.

Can't one just replace the gemdos trap vector with an address of one's own
routine?  Check if it is a output call and buffer or save the output to
a file.

-- Greg