Re: running dos executable from mathematica and reading output
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- Subject: [mg45437] Re: running dos executable from mathematica and reading output
- From: "John Jowett" <John.Jowett at cern.ch>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:31:01 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: CERN
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This is perfectly possible and I do it all the time. The best answer, on Windows and Unix, is not to use Run. See my recent post to this list on "Run[] and Mathlink". You can also find it via http://groups.google.com/groups?q=jowett+readlist John Jowett P.S. I assume that by "dos executable" you mean a Windows command-line program. "Frank Bruggeman" <frank.bruggeman at falw.vu.nl> wrote in message news:btg82d$8rt$1 at smc.vnet.net... > 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 >