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Article #16582Re: MS-DOS Prompt
From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 22:28
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 22:28
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"CapStick" <lol@ljones81.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:3eb982de@newsgroups.borland.com... > Assumming that these calls would indeed have > to be aimed at an MS-DOS PROMPT . > > Is ShellExecute where i should be looking. Use CreateProcess() instead. It will allow you to provide your own handles for STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR of the spawned process. That way, your application can directly send/receive text to/from the DOS app itself. No actual DOS window is needed. Look at CreatePipe(), Read/WriteFile() and GetStdHandle() for working with the handles. Gambit
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