Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > Why can't you just set up a pipe, fork, connect stdout of the child to one > end of the pipe, and exec the program?
Thanks, reading about 'pipe' led me to 'popen' which pretty much automatically does what you suggest. regards, Colin -- Colin Tuckley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP/GnuPG Key Id +44(0)1903 236872 | +44(0)7799 143369 | 0x1B3045CE A door is what a cat is perpetually on the wrong side of. - adapted from Ogden Nash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]