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From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Shell..
Message-ID: <9005@alice.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 89 16:52:58 GMT
References: <21314@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP ()
Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs
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In article <21314@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> aviz@CS.UCLA.EDU () writes:
>How can I run a shell command in C? Like running UUCP, or SendMail, or any
>other program?

see system(3)

>And can I make the C program work interactively with the other application?
>thanks...

see popen(3)

the one problem that remains with popen is that you can only read from the
pipe or write to the pipe but not both.

Paul.
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