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From: forgeas@swinjm.UUCP (Jean-Michel Forgeas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: C questions (again)
Message-ID: <18a64c31.ARN0d59@swinjm.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 91 11:27:45 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.114348.10577@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Reply-To: forgeas@swinjm.UUCP (Jean-Michel Forgeas)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Organization: The Software Winery
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In article <1991Feb7.114348.10577@marlin.jcu.edu.au>, Matt Crowd writes:

>       input = (struct FileHandle *) Input(); // get filehandle of stdin
>       printf("This is program 1!\n");
>       Execute("program2",input,0); // run program2
                                 ^^-----------------------------it's here
>       printf("Because of something very wierd, this line "
>       "will not be printed.  I do not know why.\n");

The parameters of Execute() are: ( "program name", input, output )
Since your "program2" does 'printf' it needs an output. It has not,
so it prints 'into the air'... and hangs.
This should work:
        Execute("program2",input,Output());
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