Shell..

[Paul De Bra]

In article <21314 at shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> aviz at CS.UCLA.EDU () writes:
>How can I run a shell command in C? Like running UUCP, or SendMail, or any
>other program?

see system(3)

>And can I make the C program work interactively with the other application?
>thanks...

see popen(3)

the one problem that remains with popen is that you can only read from the
pipe or write to the pipe but not both.

Paul.
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