[slug-chat] Java and processes...

["Steven downing" <steven.downing@xxxxxxxx>]

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I know I should ask this elsewhere, but right now e-mail is all the access I've got.
Any Sluggers out there know if Java can start external processes, similar to Python's spawn kind of thing.
The situation is I have a program written by a comercial company which dumps a type binary file into an easily readable text listing, and I'd like to be able to use that without having to reengineer the file decoder.
I'm guessing this is against the java security rules, but hoping I can do it....
And yes, my choices are Java, or BASIC (a variant for our cad system, not VB) to do this....
Thanks

Steve