Process in/out-Put to Streams in DOS-Box-like utility
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Hi! I´m currently programming a GUI for a Command-Line-Based System. The administration is done with a command-line-Admin-Tool similar to Windows´ CMD-Dos-Box. Unfortunately i cannot run the admin-commands on their own, because the only run in this cmd-line-based gui, which seems to be an stand-alone interpreter, not a dos-box running seperate programs... Also there is no API available i could use. What i´d like to do is to call a DOS-Box/Admin-Tool via the Process-Object and send my commands to it via the StandardInput-Object. Sending works fine, but when I do the reading from StandardOutput-Stream, i cannot find an end-mark for my while-Statement. (For testing-purposes i send everything to the system-console in order to see, what comes back from my process)
string sto = null; string ste = null; while ( ((sto = process.StandardOutput.ReadLine()) != null) || ((ste = process.StandardError.ReadLine()) != null) ) { if (sto != null) System.Console.WriteLine(sto); if (ste != null) System.Console.WriteLine(ste); sto = null; ste = null; }When the command has finished, the loop hangs in the ReadLine-Statements. Peeking into the stream doesn´t work and hangs also... How could i do this? Thanks a lot! J. -- modified at 9:43 Thursday 16th February, 2006