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From: ORCUTT@cc.utah.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: TurboC again
Message-ID: <40952@cc.utah.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 90 03:52:18 GMT
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I don't know if this is the problem, but I had a
similar problem with a MAKE I use.  A makefile had
the line

     maketbl < table.def > table.c

in it.  When MAKE was compiled under uSoft C 5.1, the
program spawned the above line (using spawn, not system,
I think).  When spawned, the computer hung, waiting
for input from the standard input device.
I think that spawning from uSoft C doesn't run
COMMAND.COM, but just runs the binary, maketbl in
this case.  COMMAND.COM does the redirection; without
it, "<" was passed as an argument to maketbl, which
ignores arguments.  I'm not sure that this is the
problem mentioned, but it may be.