How to catch output from external exe file

[Ivan S]

I tried something like this:

try {
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("somepathto\
\some.exe");

String line = null;

BufferedReader read = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));

while((line = read.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
}
int exitVal = p.waitFor();
System.out.println("Exit value = " + exitVal);
}
catch (Throwable e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

....but it doesn't work.
When I try to read one by one character (using read() method) it
produces some output, but not all.

Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance.

 

[Roedy Green]

while((line = read.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/exec.html for how to do it.

 

[Jacek Wojciechowski]

Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance.

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2000/jw-1229-traps.html?page=1