A reading of the 'start' command help info ("start /?" at a command prompt) suggests you may be able to do it by adding the /B and /WAIT arguments to the START command:
C:\Documents and Settings\jveilleu>start /? Starts a separate window to run a specified program or command. START ["title"] [/Dpath] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED] [/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME | /ABOVENORMAL | /BELOWNORMAL] [/WAIT] [/B] [command/program] [parameters] "title" Title to display in window title bar. path Starting directory B Start application without creating a new window. The application has ^C handling ignored. Unless the application enables ^C processing, ^Break is the only way to interrupt the application I The new environment will be the original environment passed to the cmd.exe and not the current environment. MIN Start window minimized MAX Start window maximized SEPARATE Start 16-bit Windows program in separate memory space SHARED Start 16-bit Windows program in shared memory space LOW Start application in the IDLE priority class NORMAL Start application in the NORMAL priority class HIGH Start application in the HIGH priority class REALTIME Start application in the REALTIME priority class ABOVENORMAL Start application in the ABOVENORMAL priority class BELOWNORMAL Start application in the BELOWNORMAL priority class WAIT Start application and wait for it to terminate command/program If it is an internal cmd command or a batch file then the command processor is run with the /K switch to cmd.exe. This means that the window will remain after the command has been run. If it is not an internal cmd command or batch file then it is a program and will run as either a windowed application or a console application. parameters These are the parameters passed to the command/program ..... I tried this from a command prompt and it did the expected thing (ran the command directly in the same window I was typing in). Perhaps if you did it that way but via STAF with PROCESS START it would work too?? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Veilleux IBM/Lotus Domino Server Quality Engineering 550 King Street Littleton MA 01460 Email: joeveill...@us.ibm.com David Bender/Austin/IBM @IBMUS To yamini sardana 09/13/2010 10:06 <sardana.yam...@gmail.com> AM cc staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject Re: [staf-users] starting a process with High Priority Hi, I don't know of a way to do that. If you use "start" as the STAF PROCESS, the application will start in a separate Windows shell, so the process output will not be accessible via STAF. Thanks, David David Bender 11501 Burnet Rd. Phone (T/L): 1-512-286-5315 STAF/STAX Development Bldg. 903-5B002 (363-5315) Austin, TX ITN: 23635315 IBM Software Group, 78758-3400 Email: bda...@us.ibm.com WPLC Inactive hide details for yamini sardana ---09/13/2010 08:30:18 AM---Hi, I have a windows console application which takes 2 filyamini sardana ---09/13/2010 08:30:18 AM---Hi, I have a windows console application which takes 2 files as input parameters From: yamini sardana <sardana.yam...@gmail.com> To: staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 09/13/2010 08:30 AM Subject: [staf-users] starting a process with High Priority Hi, I have a windows console application which takes 2 files as input parameters and executes with a normal priority. After the process completes, the STAXResult contains the stdout and stderr from this process. Now for some tests, I want to run this application as a High priority process and get the output in STAXResult. I tried using the "start /HIGH <application>" DOS command but it does'nt return anything in STAXResult. Can you please let me know if there is any option through which I can achive this test scenario. Thanks in advance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ staf-users mailing list staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/staf-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ staf-users mailing list staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/staf-users
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