shell() not waiting - not hiding

[Dar Scott]

On Apr 3, 2005, at 10:00 AM, MisterX wrote:

> You can start a shell with the "start" (see start /? or /help) DOS 
> command
> to make the shell return directly to runrev right away but you will 
> not get
> an answer back - you need to pipe it to a file instead which is not 
> that
> hard to watch and catch later...

If the application is writing to the console instead of to stdout, then 
this might not work.  Maybe there is a way to ask the console window 
for data.  Or maybe there is a switch to control output.

Piping might be a good way to check the output hypothesis.

Dar

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