Write to the command line

[mstrealy]

What i want to do is write back to the comamnd line.


type into command line: program.exe -options
return to the command line: "-save(save file). "-more option (some text)"

[dealman]

i dont understand what exactly you want to do...
do you want to open a program from your application to other application and sending it a certain parameter??or what?

Private Sub Form_Load()

    Select Case Command
        Case "-options"
            MsgBox "-save(save file)" & vbCrLf & "-more option (some text)"
    End Select
    
End Sub

[mstrealy]

I want to call my program on the command line an pass it parameters.

Ex: program.exe -options


Then if the parameter passed to my program is "-options" list all of my options back to the user on the command line from which they executed my program.

So now the user has a list of all the parameters they can pass to my vb program.

I know how to do all the above except for "printing" or "writing" back to the command line that the user called my application from. I do not want to use a msgbox or text file. I just want to write back to the command line.

Thanks
Mark S

[Shrog]

I think, if I understand you correctly, that you want your program to return a value.

Forget about the commandline. It is just some text that is passed to your program. It does not exist as a space where you can do things like writing to it. You cannot do anything with it. You cannot use it to pass data back to the calling program.

It sounds to me like you are running this program from a DOS command line. What language is it written in? What kind of data do you want to write back, and what do you want to do with the data that is send back?

Shrog

[mstrealy]

I want to return to the command line some text.


The user will launch the program from a command line (most likely from the dos commmand line) and pass the program a parameter. If the parameter passed to the program is = "-options" then the program will will write back to the command line the various parameters they may call the program with.

So does anyone know how to write back "some text" to the command line from which the program was executed.

So as a user if i am in dos and i launch the program but i dont know all of the parameters i can pass the program, so i type -options Example: "C:\whatever\whatever\program.exe -options"

So as a user i expect to see "-save,-delete,-update,-full,-options" on the next line of the command line.

So does anyone know how to write back "some text" to the command line from which the program was executed.

I don't think VB can do what you want. You'd have to use C++. Actually, the only way VB can do it is if you create a bat file and then Shell it and give the commands that way. --Suggestion