problem with shell command

I am trying to run this shell command
Shell("C:\FORTRAN\TEST.EXE file1 file2 file3", 1)
file1 and 2 are input files to run the test.exe and the output is printed in file3.

file1,2 are selected from my commondialogbox1.filename
file1=commondialog1.filename
file2=commondialog1.filename
file3=text1.text (out put file)

at the shell command it is not able to read the file1 and file2 to run the exe file.

anyhelp is greatly appreciated
thanks
p1

Hi p1,

I don't know why it doesn't work, but you can try this:


Command1_Click ()
Dim X
...
X = SHELL(".....)
...
end Sub


Perhaps the 'Dim X' and the 'X = ..' is missing.

Good luck, Matt :)

if file1 and file2 and file3 have values for file names then you probably want to use them rather than hard coding file1,file2 and file3. Like this:
Shell("C:\FORTRAN\TEST.EXE " & file1& " " & file2 & " " &file3, 1)

Better yet concat your command string first and then call SHELL:
dim cmd as string
cmd = "c:\fortran\test.exe " & file1& " " & file2 & " " &file3
shell(cmd,1)

That help?