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echo: pascal
to: BRAD CARSON
from: STEWART HONSBERGER
date: 1998-04-25 12:53:00
subject: EXEC - PKZIP/UNZIP hiding

Friday April 24 1998 17:18, Brad Carson wrote to All:
 BC> Hello.  I am running PKZIP/PKUNZIP through a turbo pascal program by
 BC> using calls to EXEC.  How can I hide all the garbage that comes up?
 BC> Like I mean when it says "PKZIP v2.04g, etc etc etc"..  I don't want
 BC> that to come up in the middle of my program!  You can't set the screen
 BC> colour to black.  That sort of thing just doesn't work.
I'm not sure if this will work, but in theory it should. What about 
re-directing the output to NUL, a la DOS? Just like in a DOS command you 
want to re-direct, try adding '> NUL' to the end of the command line 
parameters?
Stewart Honsberger,
  blackdeath@tinys.oix.com
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