problem with shell command

[p1]

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

[Matt-D]

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

[Nias]

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?