Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:26497 comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer:216 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!inria!loria!anigbogu From: anigbogu@loria.crin.fr (Julian ANIGBOGU) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: popen() Message-ID: <1503@loria.crin.fr> Date: 22 Feb 90 16:04:49 GMT Reply-To: anigbogu@loria.crin.fr (Julian Anigbogu) Organization: CRIN - INRIA, Nancy, France Lines: 20 Keywords: Can some kind soul point me to where I can get a PC implementation of the Unix C popen() /* for handle to a pipe */. I manipulate huge rasterfiles(from a scanner) on a Sun and I adopted the policy of compressing all files to save disk space. I open them with popen("uncompress -c filename","r") so that they remain compressed on disk. I now need to port the programs to DOS and to my chagrin my regular compiler doesn't implement a pipe open. Suggestions in any form would be appreciated. Julian -- --------------------------------------- e-mail: anigbogu@loria.crin.fr | All opinions expressed here are | | naturally mine. However ... | ----------------------------------------