George <romans5_8@earthlink.net> trolled:

> Does anyone know how to capture the normal terminal output of a program
> called from a 'C' program system() call?

> I want to get the output of pstree from within my program.

> example: returnval = system("pstree");

> How can I capture the output of pstree that would normally show up in
> the terminal window?

Try returnval = system("pstree > psoutput");

The tree should be captured to the file psoutput.

See how that works.

cordially, as always,

rm