Re: [TxMt] tm_dialog and really long plists

On 26. Apr 2007, at 22:05, Brett Terpstra wrote:

Thanks for the help. Is there any reason to use popen over popen3? Is it just that I don't need popen3 because I'm not using stderr for anything?

Yeah, no real reason -- I guess popen is more “built in” than popen3 (seeing how you do not need a require).

I think popen just merges stdout and stderr.

So use whatever you think is easiest :) I guess on the previous ground you could say popen3 is better, because if there is some warning or error printed to stderr, it won’t be intermixed with the resulting plist (which would lead to a parse error, even when the plist might have been complete, despite the text sent to stderr).