From: ec@kira.intranet.org (Iain O'Cain)
Subject: Checking success of an EXE
Date: 1998/04/16
Message-ID: <6h5ij8$n8b1@crash.videotron.ab.ca>#1/1
Followup-To: poster
Summary: help!
Organization: Videotron Communications Ltd.
Reply-To: ec@intranet.org
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools




I'm writing a small program to be called by an ORACLE Forms
application, where my program will just scan a page to a location
dictated by the Forms app.  Then I'll return success/failure.  Can
someone tell me, so I can pass it on to the Forms developer: How do
you check the success of an EXE invoked by the HOST command?  Is there
a way to handle the error if the EXE turns out not to exist?

We've considered trying to use DDE just because it seems to be a bit
more robust, but really all we need is for my program to return 
success or failure!

Thanks for any pointers.  I'll be glad to summarize, especially if 
there are multiple ways to approach this.

- Iain

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