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From: vilva@csvax.csc.lsu.edu (Vilva Natarajan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: System() function
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Date: 22 Oct 90 19:20:40 GMT
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I am trying to do system("man cat | wc -c") in my program, and i need
to store the value returned by "wc" in a variable declared in my program.
I dont want to redirect it to a file and then read from the file.
Please advice.

vilva@csvax.csc.lsu.edu