Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 12/28/07 02:42

Vince Morgan wrote:
> "Tim Roberts" <timr@probo.com> wrote in message
> news:ag71n3hb9lsf385c5pdf0k4os0s9pcjvfn@4ax.com...
>> You are wrong. "printf" writes to stdout. If you run it from a console,
>> then stdout is connected to the console, but that's certainly not the only
>> option. If you type:
>> hw > xxx.txt
>> then clearly "printf" is not going to the console.
>
> Clearly, thank you.
>
>> Your suggestion about fread is also off the mark. Any of the stdio
>> functions will work.
>
>>>> "Vince Morgan" <vinharAtHereoptusnet.com.au> wrote:
> [snip]
>>>> According to the manual the file pointer that is returned by "popen()"
> can
>>>> be used by the following, fgets(), fgetss(), and fwrite() whereas you are
>>>> calling "fread()".
> [snip]
>
> What suggestion was that? I can't see it in the above. You have another
> source?
>
>>> You need to capture the output as a string so
>>> that it can be output to the server as HTML or whatever. However you
> cannot
>>> return a string from a C executable.
> Ooops, pipes.
>> Not so. Perhaps you should hold off on replying until you are in more
>> familiar territory.
>
> My appologies to Daniel.
>
> I see your ego is much larger than you manners..
> Regards,
> Vince Morgan
>
>
>

Sorry, Vince. I agree with Tim. You're grasping at straws here.

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