RE: Questions on "Calling PC Commands from RPG" article

>The type of commands I am looking to run are not DOS commands but,
rather,
>anything you might run in the "Run" window (Start menu, Run *or*
><WindowsKey-R>). My intentions are, among other things, to use the
mailto:
>aaa@xxxxxxx "command". Once I fugure that one out, the rest is candy. 

And therein lies your problem. The things you can do from the "Run"
window are handled by the windows GUI shell -- what we all think of as
"windows." However, the shell is just a user interface sitting on top of
the core of windows. The command windows "cmd.exe" is another user
interface sitting on top of the core of windows -- and a much simpler
one.

It's not windows that knows how to deal w/the mailto: "command", it's
the shell. Try it out, just open a cmd.exe window and type
mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx and hit enter. CMD.exe doesn't know how
to deal with that.

You need to get the shell to process your request.

-Walden

PS. When I say that the GUI sits ontop of the core of windows, I'm not
saying that DOS is sitting under the GUI, just that the kernel is a
characterbased kernel -- like every other kernel in the world.


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