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From: defaria@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Andy DeFaria)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Redirecting I/O for .BAT files?
Message-ID: <45670029@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 22:36:55 GMT
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>/ hpcupt3:comp.lang.pascal / defaria@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Andy DeFaria) / 11:01 am  Jun 26, 1991 /

>>So, try it like this:
>>
>>var
>>  CommandCom: string;
>>
>>  CommandCom := GetEnv('COMSPEC');
>>  SwapVectors;
>>  Exec (CommandCom, '/c '+CommandCom+' /C C:\ANDY\FOO.BAT > FOO.OUT');
>>  SwapVectors;
>
>OK.  I'll  try  it  again - verbatim  (plus a  Program  statement  and  the
>appropriate  Begin/End's  of course).   Don't think it   will work but I'll
>report it back to you.  I have  some  questions though: Did *you* try this?
>Does it work for you?  If so, what  version of  DOS/TP are you using.  What
>is your chip (mine's an HP Classic Vectra 286 with DOS 3.3 and TP 6.0)?

OK I tried it again and it still fails horribly!  The disc churns for about
5 seconds when the  program is  running.  What  I get in  FOO.OUT is a zero
length file.  Again I ask: Did *you* try this?  Does it work for you?  Does
anybody have anything that really does work!