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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Start a Windows process and get its text output
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Gautier write-only wrote:
> 
> Does someone have some nice open source to do that ?
> I began to cannibalize working code from AdaGIDE, but it is a bit
> messy.
> If I can save a couple of hours to make a good package out of it, it
> would be cool...

I used to do something like this to get a directory listing in Ada 95: Using 
GNAT.OS_Lib I spawned cmd and redirected the output to a file, then read the 
file from my program. Not nearly as complex as what you're after, but it worked 
for my purposes and only took a few minutes to get working.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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