[fpc-pascal]Filter

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Andreas K. Foerster wrote:

> Hello,
>
> how can I start an external program and redirect its standard output
> so that I can use it from within my program.

On Linux, you can use the POpen() call. This will run a program and redirect
the output to a standard pascal file.

On windows this is more hard, but can be done as well (see the TPRocess object
in the FCL).

On DOS it is impossible.

Michael.