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

Thu Oct 21 11:59:53 EDT 1999

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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