Re: Running Notepad From Forms 4.5

From: Nuno Guerreiro <nuno-v-guerreiro_at_invalid.telecom.pt>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:05:06 GMT
Message-ID: <365acadf.2915632@news.telecom.pt>

On 24 Nov 1998 14:40:53 GMT, "Nick Lehane" <LehaneN_at_logica.com> wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>I'm wondering if there is any way of invoking Notepad or Wordpad (or some
>sort of text editor) from forms. I will be using it as follows:
>
>Call a foreign function using ORA_FFI which outputs data to a file.
>Call a text editor with the output file as a parameter to display results
>of function.
>
>If anyone has any ideas on how best to achieve this, I'd be most grateful.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Nick

Although I've never tried, I believe you can use the host() function for this purpose

Good luck,

Nuno Guerreiro

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