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From: mike@bria.commodore.com
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Subject: Re: LOST in a PIPE
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Date: 27 Feb 91 22:03:39 GMT
References: <782@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> <1991Feb25.174114.8830@athena.mit.edu>
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In an article, athena.mit.edu!jik (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
|  Ah, but wait, there's a trick!  You can do this:
|1. Create a pipe.
|2. Fclose(stderr).
|3. Fdopen() the write end of the pipe and assign the return value to stderr.

Why not simply dup the stderr to stdout prior to the popen()?

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Michael Stefanik, MGI Inc., Los Angeles| Opinions stated are not even my own.
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