Re: Reading from a console without using a physical file

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From: Michel Leunen
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 20:12

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Jay McVinney wrote:

> I need to run a third-party program that is a console application.  This
> application drops it's output into stdout, just like any other dos utility.
> Unfortunately I am not seeing any way to read this output directly without
> having to create a physical file using redirection and then going back with
> my application and reading that file.

I have a sample on my site that shows how to redirect the stdout of a 
console application to a TMemo. It should not be that hard to customize 
it to suit your needs:
http://www.leunen.com/cbuilder/redirect.html

Michel
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