Capturing standard output into my Slick-C program

[mrothman]

I wonder if anyone can suggest a best practice for running a third party program and capturing the standard output.  I could of course use the concur_command and then read the output from the .process buffer.  But I wonder if there's something a bit more straightforward where I can just pass a string variable in to be filled with the output of a third party exe? Thanks.

[flethuseo]

I use filter_command a lot to take some input from a selection in slickedit and then it prints the output right on that selection as well. I don't know if not selecting something and just executing the command would output to your slickedit buffer. Let me know if you want an example macro of the command.

Ted