From:	cmooney_news AT jumpdev DOT com (Cris Mooney)
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Subject:	Re: AspExec, stdio and dos apps
Date:	Thu, 24 Sep 1998 17:13:37 GMT
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Total newbie stab in the dark:

Try exec for "cmd /c <your command>" and see if you get the output. If
not, can "cmd" redirect stderr if there is sucha thing?

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998 11:55:41 -0700, Joshua Brown <hsoj AT geocities DOT com>
wrote:

>I am trying to get the output of a dos app into a string within an
>active server page.  I have the AspExec component, but it relies upon
>the app using "stdio" for its output to be able to grab the string.  The
>app I am using does not apparently use stdio, because the string it
>returns is always empty.  Is there a way I can work around this?  Is
>there a shell app that I can invoke that will turn the output into an
>stdio string?  Any help would be appreciated.

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