How can you open a file, and view it, pop it up, using C?

[jon]

I am looking for a way for a user to view the file, my program has just
created, without going to look for it!!
Please help

aspiring programmer
Jon
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[Ben Pfaff]

I am looking for a way for a user to view the file, my program has just
created, without going to look for it!!

It sounds like you'd be better off asking in a newsgroup specific
to your operating system or C implementation. Standard C doesn't
give a way to do what you want to do, so you're unlikely to get
good answers here.

 

[Flash Gordon]

It sounds like you'd be better off asking in a newsgroup specific
to your operating system or C implementation. Standard C doesn't
give a way to do what you want to do, so you're unlikely to get
good answers here.

The standard does provide a way. Since the program has just created it
the program can read it and write it to stdout. Of course, this might
not be what the OP meant ;-)

 

[SM Ryan]

# I am looking for a way for a user to view the file, my program has just
# created, without going to look for it!!
# Please help

If your system provides a command line to do it, you can probably use
the system function. For example on MacOSX, I could do
system("open 'path/to/file'");
or
system("open -a TextEdit 'path/to/file'");