Does anyone know how to get the output of a dos program. That way it can be used as data for another program.

command > file or command >> file e.g.: dir > out.txt or dir >> out.txt Using two greater-then signs will APPEND the output to the file (will preserve previous data from file). Using only one will "reset" file and put only the output (if there where any data in the file, it will be lost) -- Secret_Doom - Leonardo Pignataro -- secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br

There are 3 ways to use text output from a DOS program. 1. Use the right arrow,>,to send the text to a file. For example to save the contents of a directory type, dir>dir.txt. This redirects the output to the file you choose,in this case dir.txt. Your program then can read the file. 2. Use the left arrow, <, to use a file such as dir.txt from above to send file contents to the input of your program. For example type, dir.txt < yourprog. Then yourprog code would read the file just as if you typed the info yourself using the normal keyboard input functions. Of course you could also add code to open the file and read it but this is a shortcut 3. Use the pipe symbol, | , to use the output of another program to input directly to yours. Then your program can input the text as if it came from the keyboard. In C it would be getch() for 1 character at a time or gets() to read an etire line. Keep reading until you get a NULL. For example type dir | yourprog. Then yourprog code reads the directory listing the same way you would as if you typed it in yourself.

If you are saying that you have a DOS program that spits out some info - but offers no way to print or save to disk, then no. No way to save, except maybe print screen. If it offers to print the data there was a program called PRN2FILE which would redirect anything going to the printer to a file on disk.