Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:05:43 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Dan Gold wrote:

> Is "rt" read text?

Yes.

> should "r" do the same thing?

The default for `popen' is binary, not text.  So it's not the same.

> and also is that > thingy reading the directory to a file?

This is called redirection.

> and can you normally open a directory as a file?

Use the library function `opendir' to ``open'' a directory.  You
cannot open a directory as a file on DOS/Windows (but you can on some
versions of Unix).