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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Using Spawn in Win2K
Date: 06 May 2002 17:49:05 -0400
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"Dave Head" <headdp@nswc.navy.mil> writes:

> <snip>
> So, please, what goes where I have "command.com"?  

command.com is a 16 bit application. Use cmd.exe instead.

> Or, can it be done at all in W2K? 

I've never done this, but it should work :). 

> Later, when that is working, and I want to say "dir >filename.txt"
> to throw the output into a file, can the entire phrase "dir
> >XXX.XXX" be thrown into the string, 

Probably. Give it a try.

> >or do each of "dir", ">" and "XXX" have to be a different string
> for the Cmd_array to point to?

If the first one doesn't work, try this :).

-- 
-- Stephe