Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!lzga!bogatko
From: bogatko@lzga.ATT.COM (George Bogatko)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: redirecting standard i/o from an exec'ed programme
Summary: popen won't work
	 try this (in alt.sources)
Keywords: popen, io, exec, system
Message-ID: <2005@lzga.ATT.COM>
Date: 15 Aug 90 12:18:24 GMT
References: <377@fe2o3.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T BL Middletown/Lincroft NJ USA
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In article <377@fe2o3.UUCP>, michael@fe2o3.UUCP (Michael Katzmann) writes:
> 
> I have a task that requires the ability to fork off another programme but
> to supply it's standard input and output.
	.
	.
	.
> However there doesn't seem to be any [way to get popen] to do both
> similtaneously.
> 
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.

I wrote new routines to do it called fpipe.[ch...], and I've posted
them in alt.sources.  If you can't get to alt.sources, write me
privately, and we'll try to get it to you.

GB