Piping stdout/stderr to a textview widget



I have this code:

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/* Run rar stuff */
if (rarString != NULL) {
        gchar *rar2command = g_strconcat("rar e -y ", rarString, NULL);
        g_print("rar2command: %s\n", rar2command);
        if ((p = popen(rar2command, "r")) == NULL) {
                quick_message(window1, "Damn! Popen call failed to run rar stuff.\n");
        }
}
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How does one pipe the stdout/stderr from the popen command to a textview
widget?  Here is my widget as defined in "interface.c" file:

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textview1 = gtk_text_view_new ();
gtk_widget_set_name (textview1, "textview1");
gtk_widget_show (textview1);
gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (scrolledwindow1), textview1);
gtk_text_view_set_editable (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (textview1), FALSE);
gtk_text_view_set_wrap_mode (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (textview1), GTK_WRAP_WORD);
gtk_text_view_set_pixels_above_lines (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (textview1), 1);
gtk_text_view_set_pixels_below_lines (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (textview1), 1);
gtk_text_view_set_pixels_inside_wrap (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (textview1), 1);
gtk_text_view_set_left_margin (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (textview1), 1);
gtk_text_view_set_right_margin (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (textview1), 1);
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-- Tony Freeman <tony freeman insightbb com>




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