need to read from Dos screen Window

[yuvalbra]

need to read from Dos screen Window:
need some code to read form dos windows that already open in my
station (XP)
i want to read chars by position or read the all characters and
manipolated in vb code.

I used VB6

Please help.
BR Yuval

[Phil Weber]

I don't know of any way to interact with an existing console window from VB. In all the examples I can find online, the VB program creates a new console window, with which it may then interact.

If that approach is not acceptable, the best alternative may be to redirect the console applications' output to a file, which your VB app may then read.

[yuvalbra]

I have an application that work on dos , how can i output the screen to file ?

[Phil Weber]

If the program sends its output to stdout (the console), you may use the DOS redirect operator to send the output to a file. For example, if the .EXE file name is program.exe, run the program like this:

C:\> program.exe > d:\path\filename.txt

The program's output will be sent to d:\path\filename.txt.