Getting A Hold on Error Messages

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re captured in a central database table. This required me to build a console application that would manage each step of the process. Again this is where the Internet and the VB community as a whole played a significant part in helping me build the application.

One area where I could not find an answer from the VB community was in capturing the system responses to commands run in the console window. For example if I were executing an AWK process and the process could not find a file, the system would return a message 'file not found' to the console window. I needed to be able to capture that message. After many failed attempts, I was able to find the resolution to the problem.

The procedure below opens a console window via the EXECCMD function, runs an AWK process, waits for its completion, and then reads the console screen buffer twice - the first time to get the console buffer contents as a whole, and the next time to get a line at a time. I hope others find this useful!
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