Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!midway!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!karl From: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Read all articles before responding (was Re: System() function) Message-ID: Date: 25 Oct 90 18:54:30 GMT References: <24826@adm.BRL.MIL> <1990Oct23.213342.10037@viewlogic.com> Reply-To: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation Lines: 14 In article <24826@adm.BRL.MIL> vilva@csvax.csc.lsu.edu (Vilva Natarajan) asks how to use system(3) but grab the output, and about ten people so far have posted the (same) answer. I know it can take a while for news to propagate, but I bet a bunch of the follow-ups were posted without reading through the group all the way first to see if someone else had already responded. Come on, rn users, 'm'ark or 'M'ark that baby and only post after you've read far enough to be sure that someone hasn't already given the answer. The rest of you, use the appropriate incantation for your specific newsreaders. Have an OK day. -- -- uunet!sugar!ficc!karl (wk), uunet!sugar!karl (hm) "The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs." -- Joseph Weizenbaum