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From: brucem@dbase.A-T.COM (Bruce Madsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Redirecting STDOUT using spawn
Message-ID: <440@dbase.A-T.COM>
Date: 24 Feb 90 18:50:26 GMT
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Reply-To: brucem@dbase.UUCP (Bruce Madsen)
Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale, Calif.
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>In an article of <19 Feb 90 20:42:36 GMT>,  (owen adair) writes:
>
> >How do I redirect stdout for a child process using spawn instead of 
> >system?  

	/* stuff deleted regarding spawn and stdio redirection. */

	If you want to use the rawio operators (i.e. open read write),
	look at the man page for dup and dup2 in the microsoft C runtime
	library manual.  They give an example on redirection.  To redirect
	stdout, use 1 in for the file handle.

	Bruce Madsen

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