Re: ShellExecuteA

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard,

STRPCCMD has a PAUSE() parm to determine rather to wait or not...

RUNRMTCMD doesn't wait.

Charles

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Charles,
>
> Does RUNRMTCMD or STRPCCMD do a wait until remote app completion ?
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
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> message: 1
> date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 10:52:13 -0400
> from: Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: ShellExecuteA
>
> 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.
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Robert Ostrowski
> > <Bob.Ostrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 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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