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From: Douglas AT dsteele DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Douglas Steele)
Subject: Re: win32 popen clone for mingw32 anyone?
30 Jul 1998 04:28:47 -0700 :
Message-ID: <xouMqAASUwv1EwRC.cygnus.gnu-win32@dsteele.demon.co.uk>
References: <9807280528 DOT AA13340 AT modi DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>
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To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

In article <9807280528 DOT AA13340 AT modi DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>, Mumit Khan
<khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu> writes
>If anybody has a "reasonable" popen lookalike for win32 *and* willing to
>put it under GPL, please let me know. Currently mingw32 windres (and other 
>codes that uses popen/pclose) doesn't work reliably on all versions of 
>Win95 and I'd really like to see this fixed. Would be nice to have it 
>working by the time egcs-1.1 comes out sometime next month.

Guido Masarotto <guido AT sirio DOT stat DOT unipd DOT it> suggested the following to
me "BTW, the djgpp libc contains an emulation of popen which 
perhaps can be used by Mumit Khan...  maybe you can signal it to him."


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Douglas Steele
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