From: "ara.t.howard" Date: 2008-01-22T12:36:04+09:00 Subject: Re: Start a program, get it's output, then kill it. while "multithreading"... On Jan 21, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Deadolus wrote: > So if anybody has some improvements/suggestions to the code: go ahead! if you care about stderr this won't work on windows or nix. threads, io, and guis will hang you on windows unless you really know what you are doing. for a portable way to start a process, capture it's stdout/stderr, and have a handle on the pid see my systemu lib - it's the only thing that'll work afaikt (read archives) regards. a @ http://drawohara.com/ -- sleep is the best meditation. h.h. the 14th dalai lama