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From: profesor@wpi.WPI.EDU (Matthew E Cross)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Spawning processes in DOS
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.235500.6375@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 3 Apr 91 23:55:00 GMT
References: <1991Apr3.133226.22304@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com>
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <1991Apr3.133226.22304@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> dougs@claude1.rchland.ibm.com (J Doug Smith) writes:
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->I'm trying to write an application that will run another program and
->get that program's output so it can be displayed to the user (much
->like an editor runs a compiler and sends the compiler's output to the
->user).  Does anyone have any Ideas on how to accomplish this?  Execing
->another programs certainly is no problem, I just don't see how to get
->the output from that program.

Well, one cheap wayto do it is to redirect the output to a file, then
read in the file.  This won't do if you want to do some interactive
stuff, though.  Does your compiler/library support popen()?
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