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From: svec5@menudo.uh.edu (T.C. Zhao)
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Subject: popen understood -- thanks
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.195821.17627@menudo.uh.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 91 19:58:21 GMT
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Thanks to:

J. Lee         <jlee@sobeco.com>
Ron Quinn      <rjq@mpccl.ksu.edu>
Barry Margolin <barmar@Think.COM>
Dave Eisen     <dkeisen@leland.stanford.edu>

broken pipe is supposed to terminate the program if signal
SIGPIPE is not caught or ignored. For my aplication, a
signal(SIGPIPE,SIG_IGN) with error checks on the returns of i/o 
operation works fine.