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From: anigbogu@loria.crin.fr (Julian ANIGBOGU)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: popen()
Message-ID: <1505@loria.crin.fr>
Date: 23 Feb 90 08:44:44 GMT
Reply-To: anigbogu@loria.crin.fr (Julian Anigbogu)
Organization: CRIN - INRIA, Nancy, France
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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

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