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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:55:18 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Calling vac from C
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On Thu Feb 19 05:04:15 EST 2009, anooop.anooop@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello once again,
>
> I was wondering whether if there are any libraries that I can include
> to call vac and unvac directly from my C code. Currently I am
> executing them in the shell using popen and capturing the output. I am
> looking for better ways.

what's wrong with the tools-based approach
you're currently using?

this may be hard to believe coming from unix,
but your approach is what many tools do.  nobody
links to a tcs library.  one uses the tcs(1)
executable.

executables.  god's answer to dynamic linking.

- erik