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- From: pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com (Pat Mueller)
- Message-ID: <19930121.063700.419@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 09:12:05 EST
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
- Subject: Re: How do I get the output of other programs into my REXX program in OS/2?
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- >I know that I could pipe the utility's output to a file and then use
- >LineIn to get the data, but I would like to try to avoid that
- >cheezy approach.
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- Pipe it to RXQUEUE, and then read the lines off the queue, as in
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- "DIR | RXQUEUE"
- line.0 = queued()
- do i = 1 to line.0
- parse pull line.i
- end
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- Patrick Mueller addr: pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com
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