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To: <matthew.blacklow@ticca.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
Subject: Re: C clue on FreeBSD
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 06:51:29 GMT
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> Hi all,
> 	I am running FreeBSD and am trying to learn C. I have a program at the
> moment which using C's "system" function launches a FreeBSD application. The
> problem is that it outputs to the screen all the output of the spawned
> process. I need to know how to supress the output of this process. I have
> looked through many C programming books and on the web and cant seem to find
> what i am looking for.
> 

system("program >/dev/null");

-- 

Regards
Cliff


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