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From: | "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: How Do I start another DOS program from DJGPP ? |
Date: | Wed, 09 Feb 2000 10:12:08 -0500 |
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arcadepreserv AT hotmail DOT com wrote: > Thanks for your answers. On the not possible in DOS though, > it would be possible to have a starter program that runs a > > popen(gets.exe|backend.exe) > > where gets.c is something like > > char *s; > while (1) > gets(s); > > I have tested this and indeed s always contains the latest output > string that backend.exe has output on screen. gets can of course have a > bigger loop and thus process the s string in any matter while the > backend.exe runs and prints it out. But, 'backend.exe' does not run until 'gets.exe' has finished running, which is not what you wanted. -- (\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)
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