From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Question on process piping, redirection, etc... in C
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 09:59:42 +0200
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On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Brian Chapman wrote:

> in other words, i would like to do something much cleaner than the 
> following:
> 
> system("program.exe -args  > datafile.tmp");
> f=fopen("datafile.tmp","rt");
> if (!f) do_error();
> parse_file(f);
> close(f);

You want `popen'.  Look it up in the library docs.