Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: redirecting output
Message-ID: <1990Jun29.172429.2818@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <22931@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <JASON.90Jun28152010@oswine.cs.odu.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 90 17:24:29 GMT

In article <JASON.90Jun28152010@oswine.cs.odu.edu> jason@cs.odu.edu (Jason C Austin) writes:
>	freopen will do the job for you.  In fact the unix manual page
>says that this command is mostly used for this purpose.
>
>	freopen( "filename", "w", stdout );

You have the right idea, but you left something out.  Try this instead:

	#define	FILENAME	"filename"
	if (freopen(FILENAME, "w", stdout) == NULL) {
		fprintf(stderr, "freopen on `%s' failed", FILENAME)
		exit(1);
	}

God is not on your side; such a call *will* fail eventually.  Life is
much more pleasant if your code copes properly.
-- 
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