RE: Short Commandstring on STRPCCMD

RUNRMTCMD supports up to 2000 characters. If you specify *SNA in the
RMTLOCNAME parameter, it will use the Client Access stuff. If you
specify *IP, it will use rexec. I don't think there's any reason why
you couldn't use a Java-based or AIX-based rexec client.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Short Commandstring on STRPCCMD
> From: "Titus Kruse" <t_kruse@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, March 04, 2005 9:27 am
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> "Jeff Crosby" <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im
> Newsbeitrag news:200503041211.j24CBbCS005763@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > STRPCCMD is a fine thing to run PC programms on my PC from
> > > the iSeries. But the command string can only be 123
> > > characters long. This ist not enough, when I want to print a
> > > word document by MS Word, which is located in a huge
> > > directory structure.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have another idea?
> >
> > Make a batch file on the PC, have STRPCCMD call the batch file, and put
> the
> > actual statement(s) to be executed into the batch file?
> 
> Ok, this works.
> 
> But is STRPCCMD the only one iSeries-command to run dos-commands? I hoped,
> that there would be anonther way. Maybe with QSH? And why only 123
> characters?
> 
> Titus
> 
> 
> 
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