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From: Harold.Ruby@f1999.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Harold Ruby)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Redirecting Exec() output
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Date: 22 Apr 91 00:25:11 GMT
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on 19 Apr 91  23:30:28 Craig Nelson said to All
 >part.  Typing:
 >
 >        UNZIP FOO.ZIP c:\FOODIR > c:nul
 >
 >        Exec('UNZIP.EXE','FOO.ZIP c:\FOODIR > c:nul');
 >
 >and the output is no longer redirected to nul.  It appears 
 >on the screen,

    I don't understand the logic behind assigning a drive location for NUL. 
NUL requires no path/drive. Also, I've always re-directed output (from dos, 
and EXEC statements) by using : ">+FILENAME" -not- ">+(space)+FILENAME" as you 
have done. Try this:

    Exec ('UNZIP.EXE','FOO.ZIP c:\FOODIR >NUL');

Harold