Subject:	Re: popen, pclose, and perror
To:	Shawn_McHorse AT fcircus DOT sat DOT tx DOT us (Shawn McHorse)
Date:	Mon, 12 Apr 93 12:50:55 EDT
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT ecolan DOT sbs DOT ohio-state DOT edu>
Sender:	turnbull AT ecolan DOT sbs DOT ohio-state DOT edu

First, I'd like to apologize to all for a preceding post regarding
deTeX.  The post was completely redundant, and I should know
better....  My only excuse is that I have been out of town for two
weeks and the relevant discussion was 50 posts below hte message I
reply'd to.
    Regarding popen() etc, as DJ pointed out with respect to something
else (FP computation, I think), not everything in the header files is
in the library.  There are some kludgey implementations of these which
use DOS-style temp files, for example in GNU AWK.  But these are not
going to be very useful, I think.  They're definitely not concurrent!
    There was some discussion about a month ago regarding DV/X's
sockets.  I hear they have recently been patched, so maybe something
can be done that way.  However, I have not heard of any successes yet.
(I *would* like to hear about them ... TIA).
-- 
 
Stephen Turnbull
The Ohio State University, Department of Economics
410 Arps Hall, 1945 N. High St., Columbus, OH  43210-1172  USA
Phone: (614) 292-0654  Fax: ...-3906  Email: turnbull DOT 1 AT osu DOT edu

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