VB - how can I write back to the console that called the program???

[CeeBee]

Assume I have a program (myvb.exe) that is called from a command prompt. I need to be able to write data BACK to the command prompt - something like printf() in C. The problem is that when a vb app is called, it is being detached from the console. So how do I do it??? Something like:
C:>myvb.exe
Hello World!
C:>

Oh, and it's VB6, not the .NOT

[Platypus]

Does this help?

http://internettrash.com/users/fdb/cons.htm

[CeeBee]

no, that thing will open a new console, i need to write back to the console that called the app.

[Platypus]

Mmm, I half suspected that.

I guess the problem would be that the calling console being a command prompt is pre-established in its own Virtual Machine.

Would you be able to establish your own console process first to give the command line, then use pipes to re-direct STDOUT of the child process, as suggested by dragonsf about halfway down this post:

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=ca...TRIBUTES&hl=en

Edit: Oops, sorry, wrong language. Does the concept of creating a console app to provide the calling command line help? Probably not...

[CeeBee]

Found a solution that seems to be working
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Prog...6.html#8272025

[Platypus]

You can find some good stuff on experts-exchange, especially since they put the hyphen in.

[CeeBee]

After all it didn't work as I expected. Even if it writes back to the console, when I'm calling it from my web server it doesn't respond with any data (also trying to pipe the output to a text file results in 0 bytes written). I ended up installing VB.NET Express and doing a console project which is now being supported by default (and it works...)