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From: abmg@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Aliasghar Babadi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: system cmmand
Keywords: system sh
Message-ID: <1628@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 91 21:21:38 GMT
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Hi,

	I run a program using the system command similar to the following

           system("prog &");

        for some programs I lose the stdin inputs. For some others get
a lots of stdin input. What am I doing wrong? thanks in advance.