Re: URL in RPG, passing switches to browser or PC program

["Rory Hewitt" <roryhewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

John,

An alternative might be to create a batch (.bat) file either on your PC or
in the IFS and use FileProtocolHandler to execute that:

STRPCCMD PCCMD('rundll32 url, FileProtocolHandler "mysheet.bat"')

where mysheet.bat contains the commands to start Excel and open the file as
read-only.

Rory

p.s. I'm not exactly sure how to execute a file in the IFS *directly* via
this method. I do it by having my HTTP server set up so that you can display
files in a directory (/scripts/) in the IFS and then use the full URL, e.g.:

STRPCCMD PCCMD('rundll32 url, FileProtocolHandler
http://myas400/scripts/users/hewro01.bat')

This method also gets around the 123-character limit for the PCCMD
parameter. It's more of a hassle to display dynamically-named documents,
since you would need to create a new .bat file each time or change the
existing one. Just a little bit of programming though... :-)


On 4/16/07, johnking@xxxxxxx <johnking@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> All,
>
> A February thread in this list described how to use 'rundll32.exe' via
> STRPCCMD
> to access PC documents from an RPG application. This works well, but
> rundll32
> only provides one parameter - the file name.
>
> Executing the command: STRPCCMD PCCMD('rundll32 url.dll
> ,FileProtocolHandler
> "mysheet.xls"') does indeed call Excel from a green-screen app, but does
> not
> permit passing the /r 'read only' switch that prevents users from altering
> the
> document. We would like to prevent that.