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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:53:08 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Calling vac from C
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On Feb 19, 8:03�am, quans...@quanstro.net (erik quanstrom) wrote:

> 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

just a matter of preference  :-)

I believe that
1) Its too much trouble parsing the output everytime.
2) Calling some function from an included library will be faster.

~Anoop