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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Redirecting STDOUT using spawn
Message-ID: <T.Y1Y16xds13@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 23 Feb 90 23:43:59 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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>         freopen("FILE", "w", stdout);
>         ercode = spawnlp(P_WAIT, "PROG.EXE", "PROG", "ARGS", NULL);
>         freopen("CON", "w", stdout); 

Let me be the first of no doubt many people to point out that this does not
redirect stdin back to normal. If the program you were running was already
redirected, that redirection will be lost.

To really do this right you need to use a lower-level routine. Observe
followups...
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