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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Is there a preferred way to do popen()?
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Date: 22 Aug 88 15:05:52 GMT
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In article <601@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> mlelstv@faui44.UUCP (Michael van Elst) writes:
>Hmm, you say PIPE: is a non-standard hack ? I know of several
Sorry, i did not realize how bad that might sound. 
I very much like the variours P[IPE]: devices that have been shipped, 
but they are not part of a standard 1.2 distribution. 
I was wondering if there was a simple mechanism that 
exists in 1.2 that would do for popen().
>popen() returns two filehandles that can both be used for
>input and for ouput. In usual one task then closes input and
>the other closes ouput.
No, you are thinking of pipe(). Read the manual for popen().
It only returns a read or a write FILE *.
> ... mentions clipboard ...
I will look at it again. Has anybody used clipboard.device yet?
I have not seen it used. maybe it is time to write clip:
as Peter keeps telling us.
   Only problem is my docs for clipboard.device are all 1.1 ...
ron