From: "Scott Ostrum" <scoinva AT erols DOT com DOT nospam>
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Subject: Re: AspExec, stdio and dos apps
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 09:10:19 -0400
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Can you pipe the results to a file then read the file with File Objects?
Joshua Brown <hsoj AT geocities DOT com> wrote in message
3606A1A8 DOT 797D05C4 AT geocities DOT com...
>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.
>