Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:26617 comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer:265 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!comcon!roy From: roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: Re: popen() Summary: With a proviso... Message-ID: <348@comcon.UUCP> Date: 5 Mar 90 11:38:20 GMT References: <1503@loria.crin.fr> <25F00B67.17161@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <21231@netnews.upenn.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Organization: Computer Connection, Anchorage Alaska Lines: 24 In article <21231@netnews.upenn.edu>, dowding@linc.cis.upenn.edu (John Dowding) writes: | In article <25F00B67.17161@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes: | > | > And, of course, this will take up disk space while your program is | >running. | | If you write write the temp file to a ram disk, won't this give you | nearly the same effect as the UNIX pipe? | | John Dowding | dowding@linc.cis.upenn.edu Nearly the same, as long as the temp file doesn't outrun the bounds of your ramdisk. I can't tell from experience, 'cause my wimpy litle machine only has 640k, which leaves precious little room for a ramdisk. -- _R_o_y _M_. _S_i_l_v_e_r_n_a_i_l | UUCP: uunet!comcon!roy | "Every race must arrive at this #include ;#define opinions MINE | point in its history" SnailMail: P.O. Box 210856, Anchorage, | ........Mr. Slippery Alaska, 99521-0856, U.S.A., Earth, etc. |