Calling external programs from D

[Regan Heath]

On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:36:45 -0700, kris <foo at bar.com> wrote:
> Tydr Schnubbis wrote:
>> I'm making a gui app with DWT, and I need a way to run an external,  
>> command line tool and get its output.  Either directly from the tool's  
>> stdout, or by having it write to a file first.
>>  I'm working on windows.  The system() function is unusable because it  
>> opens a new command line window when it starts the tool.  That you can  
>> get it to close the window again really fast by using 'start' is not  
>> good enough
>>  It doesn't have to be a portable way.  If someone can tell me how to  
>> call _popen or something in msvcrt.dll, I would be happy.
>
> I understand Regan posted a module to do exactly what you want. Maybe  
> he'll see this, or you may be able to dig it up again from the archives  
> (or via google upon the digitalmars site). Reckon the keywords would be  
>   something like ~ win32 pipe process regan

Here they/it is :)
Regan
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