RE: Running a VB program from the AS/400 IFS

Vern,
I never really took the time to research the scope of the start command, but
I think it's just more or less like DOS searching its pathlist.  Seems to
find most of the applications I've tried to fire up from the as400.

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Vern Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@centerfieldtechnology.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 8:52 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Running a VB program from the AS/400 IFS


Eric

That's cool. I knew I relied on the file association with the extension,
but didn't have an executable in my IFS I could find  ;-(

If there were a true executable, they'd not need the START command, i
assume?

Cheers

Vern

At 04:48 PM 11/26/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Vern,
>
>This of course depends on the association of the file extension and the
>Textpad application.  If you wanted to name the application (Excel for
>example), save some typing and try something like this.
>
>STRPCCMD PCCMD('Start EXCEL.EXE "\\192.168.1.3\root\home\vern\data1.txt"')
>
>Otherwise, you must specify the path to the application, which may not be
>constant on all installations.
>
>Eric DeLong
>Sally Beauty Company
>MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
>940-898-7863 or ext. 1863
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vern Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@centerfieldtechnology.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:22 PM
>To: midrange-l@midrange.com
>Subject: Re: Running a VB program from the AS/400 IFS
>
>The following worked - need to specify the NetServer share name after the
>system name (or IP address)
>
>     STRPCCMD PCCMD('\\192.168.1.3\root\home\vern\data1.txt')
>
>started up TextPad on my PC. root is the share name for '\'
>
>Cool
>
>Vern

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