From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: Win32 console question
13 Jun 1998 03:45:23 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<01BD96AF.8B5CF450.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos>
To:	"gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>,
	"'Gunther Ebert'"
	<gunther DOT ebert AT ixos-leipzig DOT de>

Gunther Ebert wrote:
> I need to obtain information of the console output
> of a third-party program. For example, I need to
> determine the size of the console screen buffer
> and I also need to read lines from the output
> of the third-party program which is of course
> running in a different process space than my
> one.

If you're able to start your program in the same console, your problem is 
solved. GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo() returns the size of console buffer, 
ReadConsoleOutput() gives you an access to the buffer contents.

--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia


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