Re: ShellExecuteA

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

IMHO, RUNRMTCMD is a great choice for batch applications, but a poor
choice for interactive ones.

STRPCCMD is a great choice for interactive applications.  The only
weakness is the 128-char limit of teh command line you pass to
it...but the archives show plenty of ways around that.

Charles

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Not sure what ShellExecuteA is, but you can use RUNRMTCMD to execute
> code on a PC. There are different ways of doing it. Aaron has
> RPG2Desktop - http://www.mcpressonline.com/tips-techniques/rpg/techtip-rpg-talks-to-the-desktop.html.
> Search the archives for Scott's inputs to this discussion. I've done
> it a lot with RUNRMTCMD and the iSeries Incoming Remote Command
> process.
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> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Robert Ostrowski
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> > Is there an equivalent of ShellExecuteA that can be run from an RPGIV
> > program to
> > open a file on the user's PC?
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