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Started by geekalert March 15, 2006 06:35 PM

2 comments, last by raz0r 18 years, 1 month ago

geekalert

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March 15, 2006 06:35 PM

is there any way to call a DOS function from an application, and get the results from it? what i mean is, for example, i want to use the "ping" command in my windows application. is there any way to 1. open up the console, 2. give the console commands ("ping 192.168.2.xxx") and 3. get the results ("destination host unreachable or somethinh") and all thru C++/Win32/whatever i need/and then some?

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raz0r

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March 15, 2006 08:54 PM

You can redirect output using a pipe.

Also, you could always do something like this:

№ 1. Execute "ping www.google.ru > C:\Dump.txt"
№ 2. Parse Dump.txt
№ 3. Delete Dump.txt

Hope that helps...