From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: starting a program & getting output
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On 17 Nov 2000 10:04:15 -0800, Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
wrote:

>"Martin Walter" <mw AT diezwei DOT de> writes:
>
>> I want to start a program as a child-process and receive the output for
>> further processing
>> (like Winzip does with arj.exe).
>> I have no idea about how to do this. I've read about a pipe on unix but how
>> can
>> I do this in DOS?
>
>Read about the popen function.  (It's probably what you'd use on
>Unix, too.)

Does popen() have problems with pulling output from Win32 console
programs?

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