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I think that system() just passes all its arguments to identify without interpreting ">out.txt" as redirection. You have to do the redirection yourself.
I don't know how you would do this in C++ but in C I did this with the freopen function: and then call "identify".

Pete

Try adding "fclose(stdout);" after your system call.

Pete

I was closing the file pointer returned by freopen

That's the correct thing to do. My brain obviously wasn't in gear when I wrote fclose(stdout)!. Sorry.

Pete