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- From: galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Galen Raben)
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:19:09 GMT
- Subject: Re: Problems with "Shell" command in VB
- Message-ID: <36720004@hpgrla.gr.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Greeley, CO
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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
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- In comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools, mwh45279@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Marc Henkel) writes:
-
- >Hello all,
-
- >I am trying my first application in Visual Basic, and it
- >is really starting to give me some headaches. I am trying
- >to shell out to executable program within my VB program.
- >Now, the "Shell" command is wonderful and everything, but here's
- >the rub... The executable is just a simple little program that
- >runs with no output (it links an IP number to a share name in
- >LAN Manager, addname.exe to be exact). I want it to run, do it's
- >thing quietly, and then go away. Right now, it runs, put's a
- >minimized window up, does it's thing, returns back to the VB
- >program, but leaves the minimized window up!! I have several
-
- You need to set up a PIF for each dos program you wish to run (or
- change the DEFAULT PIF)... In the pif editor be sure to set up
- "close on exit"...
-
- - Galen -
-