[R] capturing output from Win 98 shell

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"Simon Fear" <Simon.Fear at synequanon.com> writes:

> > system("COMMAND.COM /c dir /b", intern=T, show.output.on.console=T)
> character(0)
> > print(system("COMMAND.COM /c dir /b", intern=F,
> show.output.on.console=T))
> [1] 0
> 
> In both cases here a DOS window opens and lists a couple of hundred
> files,
> before giving the above output.

Does it help if you drop the "COMMAND.COM /c" bit??

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