Hi Mike,

Replying to a message of Mike Bilow to Mike Burgett:

 MB> Mike Burgett wrote in a message to All:

 MBu>> (I seem to recall there was a lib function for turning a
 MBu>> HFILE into a FILE* so the clib functions could use it, but
 MBu>> after searching the docs this evening, I sure can't find
 MBu>> it.)

 MB> I think you are looking for fdopen(), which is POSIX but not ANSI.

Noooo... I don't think that's it.  I seem to specifically recall that this
was for taking an HFILE returned from DosOpen (and presumably
DosCreatePipe) and pushing it back into the C-RTL's file descriptors... It
even included a warning, as I recall, that after doing this, you shouldn't
use any DosXXXX functions to access the handle, and had to use fclose() on
the returned FILE * (or presumably close() on the fd) to close it.

I'm still struggling with this one, DosCreatePipe seems to work,
DosDupHandle seems to work (the output no longer screws up my PDCurses
windows) but I seem to be getting garbage when I read the write pipe with
DosRead in another thread.  Really frustrating, and the nature of the thing
I'm working on doesn't lend itself well to trying to catch it in the
debugger. :(

Thanks,
Mike

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