Re: How to run DOS command from the form?

Dos commands can be issued from forms with the host command.

HOST ('dos command');

For example, I have a Form where I format a report in HP PCL in a package, bring the HP PCL from the package into a file on the hard drive, then send the file directly to the HP printer with a host LPR command.

HOST ('LPR C:\TEMP\file.txt -S ip.address -P XXX');

--Mark

Yu Dong wrote in message <6dch12$st9_at_mcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA>...
>Anyone can help?
>
>I try to run dos commands like copy or run a batch file from a 4.5 Form.
>Is there a way for me to do it other than writing a foreign function which
>seems somewhat complicated? I use the Form to get text data from a
>scanner, then want to issue commands inside the Form to print the data by
>a printer which can only accept DOS commands. I am pretty new to
>Developer/2000 form.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Yu
>
>
Received on Mon Mar 02 1998 - 00:00:00 CET