Standard Output from Process

[Brian]

I'm running a dos program via System.Diagnostics.Process.

The dos program is very picky about filenames and such, and so I want to
show the output to the user so they can verify it did what it was supposed
to do.

When I create my process like this it doesn't redirect the standard output:

Process prcs = new Process();
prcs.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
prcs.StartInfo.FileName = @"n:\psoft\hr830\sqrfonts\fload.exe";
prcs.StartInfo.Arguments = @"loader.dat";
prcs.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = @"n:\psoft\hr830\sqrfonts\";
prcs.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;

prcs.Start();

while (!prcs.HasExited)
{
status.Text = "Loading SoftFonts...";
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1 * 1000);
}

output.Text = "Reading Standard Output..." //this is a text box
output.Text += prcs.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
output.Text += "Done.";
After running this code, in textbox named output, all I see is "Reading Standard
Output... Done."
But, if I change the process to this it works:

Process prcs = new Process();
prcs.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
prcs.StartInfo.FileName = @"cmd.exe";
prcs.StartInfo.Arguments = @"/c fload.exe loader.dat";
prcs.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = @"n:\psoft\hr830\sqrfonts\";
prcs.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;

This seems like the wrong way to do it, but in a few other posts I saw that
this was the only way they could get the standard output to work. It seems
strange. Does it have to do with the app that I'm trying to run (fload.exe)
??

[Brian]

Oh and the fload.exe program doesn't do what it is supposed to do when I
call it directly, but it does work when i call it via the cmd.exe

[JAL]

This may help.

http://www.geocities.com/jeff_louie/call_console.htm

Jeff
Brian wrote:

I'm running a dos program via System.Diagnostics.Process.

The dos program is very picky about filenames and such, and so I want to show the output to the user so they can verify it did what it was supposed to do.