From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: starting a program & getting output
Date: 17 Nov 2000 12:19:35 GMT
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Martin Walter <mw AT diezwei DOT de> wrote:

> 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?

Yes, you need a pipe, but not the low-level Unix variety. Look up

	info libc alpha popen

That's the function you most probably want.




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