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From: dave@tygra.Michigan.COM (David Conrad)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Redirecting Exec() output
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.081429.6305@tygra.Michigan.COM>
Date: 10 Jun 91 08:14:29 GMT
References: <15253@ms.maus.de>
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In article <15253@ms.maus.de> Kai_Henningsen@ms.maus.de (Kai Henningsen) writes:
>the following works absolutely flawless:
>
>{$M 16384,0,0}
>program tst;
>uses dos;
>begin
>  swapvectors;
>  exec(getenv('COMSPEC'),'/c dir >somewhere');
>  swapvectors;                    ~~~~~~~~~
>end.
>
>Now, if you cannot get THIS program to run, something is wrong with DOS -

There certainly is something wrong with DOS - it only allows 8 character
file names.  I'm sure you knew that, but I just wanted to head off any
complaints about the output being sent to file 'somewher' instead of
'somewhere', and Turbo Pascal deleting the last character of the string.

I also can't pass up a chance to flame MS-DOS.  ;-)
--
David R. Conrad
dave@michigan.com
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