Windows Dos window doesn't work?

[Alex Tweedly]

At 17:18 15/12/2004 -0500, Glen Bojsza wrote:

>Well, I'm still trying to see if anyone else has this problem with
>Windows XP and Rev 2.5
>
>on mouseup
>open process "cmd" for read         # it opens a cmd window but fails
>to return a prompt
>end mouseup
>
>Sorry for pushing this but I'm stuck on the road without another
>machine to test with.

Don't have XP, tried it on Win2000

I see the same symptom - but I think that's what it's supposed to do. When you
    open process ... for read
the output from that process is redirected to your stack (and available via 
"read from process"). In the case of "cmd", the prompt is part of its 
output.  I tried the following script and received the characters that 
would normally be the prompt.

on mouseUp
   open process "cmd" for read # it opens a cmd window but fails  to return 
a prompt
   put the result
   read from process "cmd" for 20 chars
   put "<<" & it & ">>" & cr after msg
   read from process "cmd" for 20 chars
   put "<<" & it & ">>" & cr after msg
   read from process "cmd" for 20 chars
   put "<<" & it & ">>" & cr after msg
end mouseUp

I'm afraid I don't remember the start of the discussion, so I'm not sure 
what you are trying to do - i.e. I don't know if this helps, or just makes 
it worse :-)

I'll go look back in the archive - but wanted to get this off to you as 
soon as possible in case it does help.

-- Alex.