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From: john@dynasoft.UUCP (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Another redirection question
Message-ID: <1989Dec21.001227.10622@stag.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 89 00:12:27 GMT
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[piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes...]
> In article <1787@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>, rogers@ncrcce (Bob Rogers) writes:

>  `I've tried a similar technique using the ST's "con:" device in place of
>  `/dev/tty but to no avail.  Can anyone offer a solution?
> 
> Fforce (0, -1) or Fforce (0, Fopen ("con:", 0));

  The first one should work, but the 2nd one has a few problems.  Better to
use Fforce(0, (int)Fopen("con:", 0)); if you have to use this method. The
example Piet gave will (on many compilers) push a long onto the stack where
Fforce expects an int...  Fopen "really" returns a long for some librarys..

  In actual practice, I'd avoid using the 2nd form altogether since it
uses up a file handle that isn't going to be freeded until the program
exits.  Do a bunch of these calls and you'd suddenly discover your
program couldn't open any more files...

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  John Stanley <john@dynasoft.UUCP>
Software Consultant / Dynasoft Systems