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From: emmonsl@athena.ecs.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons)
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Subject: Re: system() question
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Date: 3 Mar 91 17:52:34 GMT
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In article <1991Mar2.181423.13981@csusac.csus.edu> I wrote:
>Also, you are _much_ better off doing a fork() and then an exec()
>instead of a system()...system just does the equivalent of a fork()

[...]

Ack, I made a bit of an error in this post.  You will also need to set
up a pipe() to properly handle the redirection.  I assume you were going
to take the file then and read it back into the program?  If so, a pipe()
works well for this.

Sorry for the mistake...

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