From: Siep Korteling <s.korteling@...>
Date: 2007-12-24T21:01:07+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.

Maybe this works for you:
output = `start 
E:\\TradingTools\\IBController\\IBControllerStart_customised.bat`

Note the " ` ", it's a backtic, not a single quote (" ' ").

see http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/136336
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