Calling external programs from D

[Tydr Schnubbis]

Regan Heath wrote:
> 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

Thanks!

But it doesn't work for me.  Seems that it blocks the new process from 
acessing the network.  Any ideas what to do?