Well, you are a bit late with this, given that the function is already there, and the sources are tagged for the 5.02 release. Anyway, you can just call popen() itself, but remember that the function names must be prefixed with _ on Windows (_popen() etc.) if portability to that platform is important. On Monday 05 June 2006 19:08, Matt Ingalls wrote: > is there a way to get the output stream from this API function? > > i'm not that much of a unix person, but i have used popen() > for similar things -- which returns a FILE stream that you can > grab output from. > > is there a reason csoundRunCommand() uses fork()/execvp() > instead? _______________________________________________ Csound-devel mailing list Csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net