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From: rcj@burl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: freopen of actual stdin question
Message-ID: <359@burl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Oct-83 00:59:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: burl.359
Posted: Wed Oct 26 00:59:36 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Oct-83 05:43:30 EDT
Organization: Western Electric, Burlington, NC
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I have a question on freopen -- I want to run a program (an assembler
that I am writing -- called 'emma') on N files, where one of those
'files' might be stdin.  A sample command line might be:

m4 light_bulb | emma -dp foo bar paddy -

indicating that the user wants to assemble files 'foo', 'bar', and 'paddy';
then take input from stdin (the output of the 'm4' on 'light_bulb').

What I want to know is --  if I use freopen to associate each filename
in turn with stdin, like this:

freopen(filename, "r", stdin);

then how do I, upon encountering the '-' at the end of the command line,
re-associate the stream stdin with the output of the 'm4' that is being
piped into emma?

Please reply via mail -- to cut down on traffic I will tell you now
that I am posting this in the early am of Oct. 26.  If you are replying
to me after Oct. 30, you are probably too late as I will have an
answer by Monday if it kills me.  :-)

Thanks very much for your time,
-- 

The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3814 (Cornet 291)
alias: Curtis Jackson	...![ floyd clyde ihnp4 mhuxv ]!burl!rcj