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ch Junior Member Offline Posts: 65	DOS / cmd execution? May 13th, 2007, 3:53pm   hi all is there any way to execute a DOS command from inside a processing app? this is of course not for a web applet but for an application residing on my hard drive -- i have a DOS program i would like to start up from within processing... any clues? thanks...

ch Junior Member Offline Posts: 65	Re: DOS / cmd execution? Reply #1 - May 13th, 2007, 3:57pm   uh... answered my own question...: http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=java+dos+command+execute&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

angelo YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 16	Re: DOS / cmd execution? Reply #2 - Apr 12th, 2009, 8:31am   found this. It also retrieve values import java.io.*; public class CmdExec {  public static void main(String argv[]) {    try {      String line;      Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("test.cmd");      p.waitFor();      System.out.println(p.exitValue());    }    catch (Exception err) {      err.printStackTrace();    }  } }

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: DOS / cmd execution? Reply #3 - Apr 13th, 2009, 3:40am   See also http://processing.org/reference/open_.html doing that for you...