Author: David Eppstein
Date: 09:00:42 11/30/00
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On November 29, 2000 at 16:36:02, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: >On November 29, 2000 at 13:56:25, David Eppstein wrote: >>On November 28, 2000 at 09:15:30, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: >>>* The specification is independend of the operationg system. For Windows, >>> the engine is a normal exe file, either a console or "real" windows >>>application. >>> >>>* all communication is done via standard input and output with plain text >>>commands, >> >>These two statements contradict each other. Some of us run operating systems >>without any "pipe" facility (i.e., MacOS versions 9 or earlier). > >I bet you have fprintf(stdout, ....) and gets(..), that'll do. Yes, stdio library exists. But, you can only direct input/output to a disk file or to a window on the screen. You can not direct it to/from another program.
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