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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: System() function
Message-ID: <1915@necisa.ho.necisa.oz>
Date: 5 Nov 90 03:07:06 GMT
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In article <8419@scolex.sco.COM> chapman@sco.COM (Brian Chapman) writes:
>Try looking in to popen() rater than system().  popen()
>is the same thing except you get pipes to and from the
>command.
>

That's pipe, singular; to _or_ from.  It's uni-directional.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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