From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: starting a program & getting output
Date: 17 Nov 2000 10:04:15 -0800
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"Martin Walter" <mw AT diezwei DOT de> writes:

> 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?

Read about the popen function.  (It's probably what you'd use on Unix,
too.)

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Nate Eldredge
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