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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:27:49 -0700
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- From: MARK@OJC.COLORADO.EDU
- Subject: connection to pworks file service without using windows file mgr
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- Hi Everyone,
-
- Does anyone know if there is a way thru Microsoft windows to connect
- to a network file or disk service without having to use the file
- manager? What we'd like to be able to do is create a windows batch
- file that would make the connection to a service, run the application,
- and disconnect from the service as soon as they exit.
-
- We're demo/testing a shareware package called winbatch, but the nearest
- thing I can come to using it is to have a macro that opens the file
- manager, makes the connection, closes (or minimizes) the file manager
- depending on whether it was already open or not, and then runs the
- application. It seems like this is a lot of extra stuff to go thru...
-
- If I need to, I could probably write a program thru Visual Basic - if
- there are functions to connect to network services...
-
- What we're doing is converting from a DOS-based menuing system that
- uses batch files to MS Windows... We have batch files that look like
- the following:
-
- USE H: \\node\application
- WP/NT...
- USE H:/D
-
- Ideally, we'd like to use the same batch files, but since you can't
- issue the use command in the batch file, we need to find a way to
- make the connection, and disconnect from windows before we execute
- the DOS application.
-
-
- Any one have any ideas or suggestions? Any help would be greatly
- appreciated...
-
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- ~ Mark Allen | Internet: MARK@OJC.COLORADO.EDU ~
- ~ Computer Programmer C | DECNET: OJC::MARK ~
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- ~ Otero Junior College ~
- ~ La Junta, CO 81050 Curiosity killed the cat, ~
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- ~ was the suspect. ~
- ~ - Steven Wright ~
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