question with command prompt and Runtime.exec()

[mosquetero]

Hi everyone!

I am using:

Runtime.getRuntime().exec(connect).

To start a MS-DOS application that connects to a server (connect, connects to a server). After doing that, I send info to the server.
The problem is that if:

connect = "whatever to connect";

it gets stuck. However if:

connect = "cmd /c start whatever to connect";

it works. But the command prompt appears and you see what is happening while the computer is getting connected to the server. Do you know why? I would like to connect to the server but without having to show the command prompt.

Thanks in advance

[Eranga]

Simply you want to start the process, but the console is hidden is it? Is that console application also coded in Java?

[mosquetero]

Yes, I want to start the process but to hide the console. I don't think that the console application is coded in java, at least I haven't coded it

[Eranga]

Actually you cannot start a process hidden in Java. Console hiding can be done with the console application. Or else it may possible to start the process as a service.