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Thread ID: 12763	2001-11-09 06:38:00	Pausing programs when using RUN	Guest (0)	Press F1

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24037	2001-11-09 06:38:00	I use a number of tools (primarily Delphi) via the RUN Command of Windows 95. The problem is that these programs flash past and I am unable to read any of their messages. It is essential that I be able to do this because some list the allowable parameters. In the good old DOS days you could pause a program with /p. Could you tell me, please, how do you do this under Windows?	Guest (0)
24038	2001-11-09 08:01:00	If you are meaning that the window they run in closes before you can read it, try opening a dos window and then running the tool from that, then the window will stay open the whole time, until you close it. If you are wanting to read what something says on the screen and it is scrolling too fast, you can try adding '> tool.txt' (exactly as quoted) to the command line and it should export any screen output into a new text file called tool.txt. I hope this works for you how its supposed to. Mike	Guest (0)
24039	2001-11-10 01:35:00	Thank you, Mike. Both suggestions worked well. I struck one small problem though: the DOS box doesn't recognise non-standard DOS directory names, e.g. with gaps. The easy solution was to copy all files into a directory off the root directory and execute the DOS program there.	Guest (0)
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