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From: Mathieu Dube <mujo@dubix.org>
Subject: Re: Getting output from another program.
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:43:34 -0400
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:01:14PM -0600, Topher Fischer wrote:
> 2. What's the best practice for getting output from an external command?
>  I've heard of it being done by forking, overwriting the child's file
> descriptors for stdin and stdout with pipes, and then exec'ing the
> command.
>
have you checked popen?

-M