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Name: Jolyhils
Date: April 19, 2001 at 11:55:52 Pacific
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Hi,

Is it possible to have qbasic run a command and let the output of that program be put in a variable?

Thanks



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Name: baz
Date: April 20, 2001 at 00:53:41 Pacific
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This example grabs to output of the VER command and puts it in A$..

SHELL "ver > test.txt"
OPEN "I", #1, "test.txt"
INPUT #1, A$
INPUT #1, A$
CLOSE #1
SHELL "del test.txt"
PRINT A$

I've read in A$ twice because VER outputs a blank line, then the result, then 2 more blank lines.


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