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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!alistair
- From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
- Subject: Re: Win32 equivalent of popen()
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.031551.25973@microsoft.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 03:15:51 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1eav9tINNor9@armory.centerline.com>
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- In article <1eav9tINNor9@armory.centerline.com> cparker@centerline.com writes:
- >How does one do the equivalent of popen() in NT? I want
- >to start another process, but make sure that it's stdin
- >and stdout are pointed to pipes which the parent
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- I'm at home, and haven't got the win32 api at hand - there is
- of course a way - you use win32 apis to get the handles to
- stdin & stdout, and start youre "child" using inheritance
- options - I hope this is a vague pointer, but if it doesnt
- lead you to the API references, I'll look around harder -- Alistair
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