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Re: running dos executable from mathematica and reading output

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• Subject: [mg45444] Re: [mg45414] running dos executable from mathematica and reading output
• From: Yasvir Tesiram <tesiramy at omrf.ouhsc.edu>
• Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:31:08 -0500 (EST)
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Hi,
Have a look at Run.

In[1]:= ?Run
Run[expr1, expr2, ... ] generates the printed form of the expressions
expri, separated by spaces, and runs it as an external, operating system,
command.

Cheers

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 frank.bruggeman at falw.vu.nl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am curious whether Mathematica is able to do the following.  I would
> like to run a dos executable (in this case a program that gives an output file
> when fed an input file) by making the input file in Mathematica and
> giving the run command (dos command line) in Mathematica and reading
> the contents of the output file in Mathematica. I know how to write to
> and read contents of external files but I am not familiar with running
> dos executables from Mathematica.  Can anyone help me?
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
> Frank Bruggeman,
> Vrije Universiteit,
> Amsterdam,
> The Netherlands
>

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    • From: frank.bruggeman@falw.vu.nl (Frank Bruggeman)