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From: mday@iconsys.icon.com (Matt Day)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: How to provide Shell Escape from a C program?
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.022830.5690@iconsys.icon.com>
Date: 22 Nov 90 02:28:30 GMT
References: <349@clbull.cl.bull.fr>
Organization: Sanyo/Icon International, Inc., Orem, Utah
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Why don't you use the system() routine rather than reinventing the wheel with
a routine that essentially does the same thing?  system() is more portable
to non-UNIX systems and it makes your source code smaller and clearer.
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- Matt Day, Sanyo/Icon, mday@iconsys.icon.com || uunet!iconsys!mday