calling a not-VB program

[Deju]

How can I call another exe-file which is not programmed in VB. It is a accountancy-program.

Normaly I have to copy an ini-file from the server to my own pc. Then I call my program mggen.exe. These things happens now in a bat-file, but i would like to do is with VB.

Tanks for helping me.

Deju

[ivyl]

You can use the shell command to call another program like this (this starts notepad):

Shell "c:\windows\notepad.exe", vbNormalFocus

To copy a file you can use the FileCopy functions:

copyfrom$ = "c:\test.txt"
copyto$ = "c:\windows\test.txt"
FileCopy copyfrom$, copyto$

[Deju]

Thanks for helping me out.

Is it also possible to give some parameters from the dos-prompt to my application?

Thanks

[Fox]

You can use 'Command' to get the arguments, not sure if it works from DOS too...

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Dim Temp as String

Temp = Command
MsgBox "Arguments: " & Temp
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