From: Matthew Harris <shugotenshi@...>
Date: 2007-12-24T20:41:23+09:00
Subject: Re: access contents of the output windows

Junkone wrote:
> hello
> I am running this as a separate thread.
>   system("start E:\\TradingTools\\IBController\
> \IBControllerStart_customised.bat")
>
> how can i access the stdout of this tread- basically capturing all the
> data streaming out of this dos window of this batch file exectuion.
> thaks in advance
>
>
>   
Hi.
You can try using IO.popen (`ri IO.popen` from the command line) or try 
installing the win32-open3 gem, which allows you to easily pipe standard 
input, standard output and standard error into separate I/O pipes.

-- 
Matthew Harris
http://matthewharris.org