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Good point Bill. &nbsp;You could almost certainly do away with the need for the EXE altogether and just query the bios setting you want too directly in the VBS.<br />
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Steve
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Good point Bill.  You could almost certainly do away with the need for the EXE altogether and just query the bios setting you want too directly in the VBS.

Steve

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I will test this and let you know the results.
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I will test this and let you know the results.

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I have an executable program called conApp.exe, that retrieves information from BIOS and displays it to the screen as a string of text. <br />
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So, if I type conApp.exe from an elevated command prompt, I get the text string displayed to the screen<br />
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For example;<br />
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c:\windows\system32&gt;conApp<wbr />.exe<br />
v1.02.13<br />
c:\windows\system32&gt;<br />
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Typically I redirect that output to a text file so I can use it in another script. <br />
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for example; c:\windows\system32&gt;conApp<wbr />.exe &gt;&nbsp;biosVer.txt<br />
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What I would like to do is pass the string of text generated by conApp.exe into variable in a VBScript file and manipulate that text within the VBScript.<br />
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for example; testscript1.vbs conApp.exe<br />
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How can I do this?<br />
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Thanks,<br />
<br />
Dave
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I have an executable program called conApp.exe, that retrieves information from BIOS and displays it to the screen as a string of text. 

So, if I type conApp.exe from an elevated command prompt, I get the text string displayed to the screen

For example;

c:\windows\system32>conApp.exe
v1.02.13
c:\windows\system32>

Typically I redirect that output to a text file so I can use it in another script. 

for example; c:\windows\system32>conApp.exe > biosVer.txt

What I would like to do is pass the string of text generated by conApp.exe into variable in a VBScript file and manipulate that text within the VBScript.

for example; testscript1.vbs conApp.exe

How can I do this?

Thanks,

Dave

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