Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 17:03:04 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Christopher Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: interesting redir behavior
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On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Christopher Croughton wrote:

> So why (apart from historical reasons) doesn't REDIR use dup2?

DJ should answer that.  But AFAIK, the way `redir' works is quite common 
practice; I've seen many programs doing that, and OpenDOS will break all 
of them.  For example, Less is one of them.

> And do other redirecting functions like popen() (and system()?) work
> on OPENDOS?

If memory serves, all of these use `dup2' and/or `freopen'.