how to "spawn" an external cmd and catch its stdin,stdout,stderr

[Andreas Rozek]

Hello,

> The closest to this would be os.popen() This doesn't allow you to trap
> stderr as far as I am aware.

Thanks, from the description, it looks as if that would fit partially,
at least - although (coming from Java) it's not what I was really loo-
king for, namely a replacement for "Runtime.getRuntime().exec(...)". 
> 
> This should work on Unix and Windows.

Yes,  according to the library reference.  I'll try that solution this
evening.

Thanks for your answer!

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