Timothy Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 13:41:57 GMT, Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> There's a DOS console application I am trying to script (in Python),
>> but it doesn't seem to use stdout or stderr... For example, if I
>> redirect output to a file ("cmd > file.txt"), the output still
>> appears on screen. Similarly, the output pipes returned by popen*
>> don't catch the app's output. How might this app be generating its
>> output? Any thoughts on how it could be captured (perhaps with
>> something in the win32 extensions)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Greg.
>
> I've had to do this a couple of times but never in recent years. I
> don't know your exact needs, but the best tool I ever found for this
> sort of job was called Phantom of the Keyboard.
>
> I ran into a couple of apps that I needed data out of and couldn't get
> it. They'd only output to screen, never to disk. I used Phantom to
> automate the app to dump data to screen and then capture the screen to
> disk.
>
Hmmm, interesting. I'll give that app a try. Thanks for the info.
Greg.
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