14.12.3.1 Win95/98 specific

popen( cmd, mode='r', bufsize=None): Portable popen() interface. Find a working popen implementation preferring win32pipe.popen(). On Windows NT, win32pipe.popen() should work; on Windows 9x it hangs due to bugs in the MS C library.

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