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I want to automate some commands in a CMD window.  I need to capture output and input "only from that window" (text only in this case).
I expect this would require a third party program to help me.

Well, in the MSDOS window of Windows 95 and up, you could run a command of dosomething.exe arg1 "argument 2" arg3 >results.lst
so putting that command in a QB64 SHELL command, then read that results.lst file. On Linux you use the same type of command sequence. If I am misunderstanding you, please give more details.

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