Use the function GetDosOutput in your application to capture all the output from a DOS application (this version only supports 32-bit console applications for how to do this with 16 bit see the update to this article http://www.delphi3000.com/articles/article_2298.asp).

Code recieved from Mike Lischke (Team JEDI) in response to a question I asked on the borland winapi newsgroup.  It came from his app "Compiler Generator" (www.lischke-online.de/DCG.html) and then was converted to the GetDosOutput function by me.  You can contact me at johnwlong@characterlink.net.

unit consoleoutput;

interface

uses
  Controls, Windows, SysUtils, Forms;

function GetDosOutput(const CommandLine:string): string;

implementation

function GetDosOutput(const CommandLine:string): string;
var
  SA: TSecurityAttributes;
  SI: TStartupInfo;
  PI: TProcessInformation;
  StdOutPipeRead, StdOutPipeWrite: THandle;
  WasOK: Boolean;
  Buffer: array[0..255] of Char;
  BytesRead: Cardinal;
  WorkDir, Line: String;
begin
  Application.ProcessMessages;
  with SA do
  begin
    nLength := SizeOf(SA);
    bInheritHandle := True;
    lpSecurityDescriptor := nil;
  end;
  // create pipe for standard output redirection
  CreatePipe(StdOutPipeRead,  // read handle
             StdOutPipeWrite, // write handle
             @SA,             // security attributes
             0                // number of bytes reserved for pipe - 0
default
             );
  try
    // Make child process use StdOutPipeWrite as standard out,
    // and make sure it does not show on screen.
    with SI do
    begin
      FillChar(SI, SizeOf(SI), 0);
      cb := SizeOf(SI);
      dwFlags := STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW or STARTF_USESTDHANDLES;
      wShowWindow := SW_HIDE;
      hStdInput := GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE); // don't redirect std
input
      hStdOutput := StdOutPipeWrite;
      hStdError := StdOutPipeWrite;
    end;

    // launch the command line compiler
    WorkDir := ExtractFilePath(CommandLine);
    WasOK := CreateProcess(nil, PChar(CommandLine), nil, nil, True, 0, nil,
PChar(WorkDir), SI, PI);

    // Now that the handle has been inherited, close write to be safe.
    // We don't want to read or write to it accidentally.
    CloseHandle(StdOutPipeWrite);
    // if process could be created then handle its output
    if not WasOK then
      raise Exception.Create('Could not execute command line!')
    else
      try
        // get all output until dos app finishes
        Line := '';
        repeat
          // read block of characters (might contain carriage returns and
line feeds)
          WasOK := ReadFile(StdOutPipeRead, Buffer, 255, BytesRead, nil);

          // has anything been read?
          if BytesRead > 0 then
          begin
            // finish buffer to PChar
            Buffer[BytesRead] := #0;
            // combine the buffer with the rest of the last run
            Line := Line + Buffer;
          end;
        until not WasOK or (BytesRead = 0);
        // wait for console app to finish (should be already at this point)
        WaitForSingleObject(PI.hProcess, INFINITE);
      finally
        // Close all remaining handles
        CloseHandle(PI.hThread);
        CloseHandle(PI.hProcess);
      end;
  finally
      result:=Line;
      CloseHandle(StdOutPipeRead);
  end;
end;


end.