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From: kadie@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Dissimilar Program Interaction?
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Date: Tue, 30-Sep-86 19:58:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 30 19:58:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu!kadie    Sep 30 18:58:00 1986



I need to allow a number of very dissimilar programs to
interact.  Each of the programs reads from standard input
and writes to standard output.

I imagine that I want Unix pipes connecting each of the
sub-programs to an executive program.

Looking through the UNIX library I found a function that
does almost what I want, namely popen. As in:
     FILE *pstrm;
     pstrm = popen("cat >response","w")
This will start cat running such that the executive can
make stream writes (fprint) to it. The problem is 
that I want to both fscan and fprint with each subprocesses.

An alternative function is the pipe command. It allows
read and write. Unfortunately I don't know how to
connect the pipe(s) to standard input and standard output
of the sub-program.
Also this does not permit fscan and fprint.

 
Any advice or leads will be desperately appreciated.

Carl Kadie