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From: dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Filehandles and Execute()
Message-ID: <8811161854.AA28755@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 16 Nov 88 18:54:55 GMT
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:In article <4997@garfield.MUN.EDU>, john13@garfield.MUN.EDU (John Russell) writes:
:> In reading the description of Execute() in the AmigaDOS Developer's Manual,
:> the bit about the filehandles you pass to it isn't clear.
:
:That's certainly true. I'm still not sure when you even want to provide them.
:-- 
:		    Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
	
	Lezee, Execute("cli-command", infh, outfh);

	Essentially, if INFH is non-null, this points to a stream which is
interpreted by the CLI as commands after the "cli-command" is run. I.E. it
is NOT the input-redirection for the command you are trying to run, but a
CLI script.

	outfh, on the otherhand, *is* the output redirection of the command
you are trying to run.

	And since you are giving it a cli-command, you can include redirection
within the command string itself, thus normally I do this:

	Execute("somecommand <infile >outfile", NULL, NULL);

							-Matt