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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 19:44:46 -0600
From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com>
To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Book/URL on C programming (inter-process comms)?
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http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/

Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> wrote:
> Can anyone point me to a good book or (preferably) a URL where I
> can get info/help about inter-process communications in C in a BSD
> environment, fork(), pipe(), popen() etc?
> 
> What I'm trying to do (without success :-( ) is to write a program,
> "foo", that starts (exec()'s?) another program, "bar" with which
> it has 2-way communication.
> 
> For example, bar outputs a prompt "enter a number", foo reads the
> prompt and sends bar a number, bar outputs a result which foo can
> read.
> 
> Anything that gives examples of doing this would be a great help.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Way to go Eddie! Eddie Irvine, Winner, 1999 Australian GP
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> _______________________________________________________________
> Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK
> CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry
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