From: coma_killen@... Date: 2002-09-18T17:55:43+09:00 Subject: Re: Capturing stdout from cmd while letting it print it > "mycmd" may buffer and not flush the output. How large is the > output? > mycmd is really a checksum verification program that goes through all the files in the dir. It prints and updates a percentage of how much of each file has been verified, as it verifies the file. Output is as many lines as there are files in the dir. Thus, not very large. > Or, it may send output to stderr or console instead of stdout. > Could be but not likely. How can i check this? Thanks, Karsten -- http://fastmail.fm/ - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service