From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: order of exectution
Date: 11 Nov 1999 01:06:07 -0800
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chongkong AT my-deja DOT com writes:

> eg.
> 
> system("sort a.txt > b.txt");
> fp = fopen("b.txt", "r");
> 
> would the program wait for the system() to finish before opening the file ?

Yes.
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Nate Eldredge
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