DOS output to variable

[SystemWontAccept]

I did some searching and it appears the way to do this is send the output to a temp text file and then read it back. Is there a simpler way?

RunWait( "cmd /c c:\windows\system32\snmputil.exe get 176.88.15.30 Public .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.4" & ">" & "temp.txt" )
$output= FileRead( "temp.txt", FileGetSize("temp.txt") )
FileDelete( "temp.txt" )

This works, just looking for input on the best way to run a DOS app and dump the output to a variable. Is the step of writing to a file needed?

Edited January 27, 2010 by SystemWontAccept

[PsaltyDS]

Look in the help file at StdOutRead().

[Fire]

Hi.

Script writed by MAT.

It works excelent.

Local $sCommand = "c:\windows\system32\snmputil.exe get 176.88.15.30 Public .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.4" 

MsgBox (0, "", _RunCmd ($sCommand)) 

Func _RunCmd ($sCommand) 
 If StringLeft ($sCommand, 1) = " " Then $sCommand = " " & $sCommand 

 Local $nPid = Run (@Comspec & " /c" & $sCommand, "", @SW_Hide, 8), $sRet = "" 
 If @Error then Return "ERROR:" & @ERROR 
 ProcessWait ($nPid) 
 While 1 
 $sRet &= StdoutRead($nPID) 
 If @error Or (Not ProcessExists ($nPid)) Then ExitLoop 
 WEnd 
 Return $sRet 
EndFunc ; ==> _RunCmd