system() question

[L. Scott Emmons]

In article <1991Mar2.181423.13981 at csusac.csus.edu> I wrote:
>Also, you are _much_ better off doing a fork() and then an exec()
>instead of a system()...system just does the equivalent of a fork()

[...]

Ack, I made a bit of an error in this post.  You will also need to set
up a pipe() to properly handle the redirection.  I assume you were going
to take the file then and read it back into the program?  If so, a pipe()
works well for this.

Sorry for the mistake...

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