[Coco] Redirection.

[Dave Philipsen]

Nothing special has to be done. It just works.

As long as your programs use STDIN and STDOUT which are the paths to/from the keyboard and terminal display, they will work with redirected input/output.



> On Apr 2, 2020, at 11:26 AM, coco at jechar.ca wrote:
> 
> 
> In os9 one should be able to pipe the output of one process
> into another does anyone have an example of how this works
> for basic09 or can it only be done in another language.
> 
> What I want is a program that can accept the text output by
> another program just as if it were typed into a INPUT text$
> statement by a user.
> 
> So two questions:
> 
> 1.   How to design test1.b09 so that you could redirect
>    another os9 program such as dir to act as it's input.
> 
> 2.   Does anything special have to be done so that a program
>    test2.b09 can redirect it's output to act as the input for
>    test1.b09 at the command line.
> 
> Do you have any sample code that shows how I could set this
> up.
> 
> Charlie.
> 
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