Hi all Yes, its me again... sorry :)
Part of my application needs to run a command, and take the output of that command to work on. This bit works fine, BUT it momentarily opens a cmd.exe instance. Not only does this look a bit scrappy, it also causes the window focus to be swapped to the cmd window, then back again (and for my application, thats a big no-no!)
Is there a way to run a system command, either via a system() call, or a open(FH,"cmd |") (or any other way), and read in the output of that command, without a cmd.exe instance appearing on the screen?
Many thanks for your help. Steve
