System() function

[Boyd Roberts]

In article <8419 at scolex.sco.COM> chapman at sco.COM (Brian Chapman) writes:
>Try looking in to popen() rater than system().  popen()
>is the same thing except you get pipes to and from the
>command.
>

That's pipe, singular; to _or_ from.  It's uni-directional.


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