Doesn't anybody write to paper anymore?

[David Bolen]

Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at gssec.bt.co.uk> writes:

> "Hernan M. Foffani" wrote:
> > > docs say that os.popen() is "unreliable on Windows."  Is this still
> > Well, there is a reliable "os.popen()" for windows around there. 
> 
> Really where? 
> I couldn't get popen to work at a;ll on NT4 or win95

os.popen() has been working fine for me on my NT4 systems (SP4 and
SP5) to run all sort of sub-processes - what sort of failures have you
been having?

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