From: "Martin Walter" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: starting a program & getting output Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:21:54 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3a15156e$0$18711$4dbef881@businessnews.de.uu.net> Organization: Customer of UUNET Deutschland GmbH NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.125.154.76 X-Trace: 974460273 businessnews.de.uu.net 18711 195.125.154.76 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT de DOT uu DOT net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hi there! 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? Thank you Martin Walter