TurboC again

[John Allen on wsl]

In article <UZl651y00WB8IWjHtL at andrew.cmu.edu> bg0l+ at andrew.cmu.edu (Bruce E. Golightly) writes:
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>The statement:
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>    system("sort <c:\\directory\\filename.ext >c:\\directory\\filename.ext");
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>from this state, the system hangs up badly. Suggestions?
>

try this
/* connect stdin & stdout to the files you want to process */
freopen("c:/directory/filename.ext", "r", stdin);
freopen("c:/directory/filename.ext", "w", stdout);
/* spawn the program */
spawnlp(P_WAIT, "sort", "sort", NULL);
/* connect stdin & stdout back to the console */
freopen("con", "r", stdin);
freopen("con", "w", stdout);

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