Re: Q:Oracle Forms 4.5 and how to start a Shell on WindowsNT

From: Frank Piron <empty_at_zero.nil>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:54:12 +0200
Message-ID: <opr9m40mylm0et4w@news.online.de>

Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:42:18 +0200 Ralf Bender <ralf.bender_at_arcor.de> wrote:

> could somebody tell me the command/call in oracle forms 4.5 to start a
> batchfile in a windows shell with passing parameters for the batch
> program?

Lookup the "host()" built in. But attention: on win2k/xp the batch may be spawned asynchronously.
Alternatively write a dll containing a system() call and make it available to forms via the foreign functions interface (ffi).

> I want to start a batch written programm (called: GetPdf.cmd) and has to
> give 4 parameters to it.

Crisis? What Crisis?

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f_r_a_n_k_a_t_k_o_n_a_d_d_o_t_n_e_t Received on Tue Jun 15 2004 - 09:54:12 CDT