Re: "EXECUTING A COMMAND FILE FROM FORMS"

The best solution to this is to use a combination of C code and pipes but a quick and dirty solution we opted for, here, one time was to simply use the HOST command to fire off a remote shell access to the host you actually need. OK, out system is AIX but we found that an added benefit (for us) was that we automatically obtained tighter control over who can do this by the necessaity of setting up .rhosts files etc. We were specifying exactly who could remote shell in from what specific NT box.

As I said, quick and dirty. It does work though.

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Alan D. Mills

Thomas Morgan wrote in message
<01bdf15a$a8176ca0$0935bf82_at_mcglover.sdsu.edu>...
>Hi, everyone:
> I was wondering if anybody knows how to execute a command file from Forms.
>We run our foms in a Windows 95/NT environment but our database is located
>in an Open VMS operating system. I was wondering if there is a way to run a
>command file in the Open VMS system when a user clicks on a button or
>performs an action in the Form. I know the command HOST is available but in
>our case the HOST is Windows and not the VMS system. I would appreciate it
>if anybody has any ideas. Thanks in advance.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Thomas Morgan (tmorgan_at_mail.sdsu.edu)
Received on Wed Oct 07 1998 - 03:22:37 CDT