DOS in Blitz

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b32

You could call the command prompt yourself. In win98 it is called command.exe and usually located in c:\
In winxp, the command prompt is called 'cmd'
Maybe you could call the both?

ExecFile "cmd /c dir/b >dump.txt"
ExecFile "command /c dir/b >dump.txt"
If FileType("dump.txt") <> 1 Then RuntimeError "commands were not executed"
ff = ReadFile("dump.txt")
While Not(Eof(ff))
p$ = ReadLine(ff)
Print p$
Wend
CloseFile ff
DeleteFile "dump.txt"
WaitKey()
End