Haven't played with pipes yet (too short on time), but I gave up on ever obtaining the standard output. Research into Windows architecture seems to indicate that GUI applications just aren't initialized with the Standard I/O/E streams, so it seems futile to obtain them. I was hoping that launching the application from a command line would make the OS initialize the streams, but no luck so far... So I settled on creating my own console. Kudos goes to the several posts referred to above, they hel