Call to Dos Operating System

Call to Dos Operating System

• Matt_343

  Take a look at process.start
  
  
  

• tody4

  twophase.exe is a fortran program that I have written. I think what is giving me problems are the spaces in "Documents and Settings" and "Two Phase Flow". If I type C:\Documents and Settings\trojan\Desktop\Two Phase Flow\twophase.exe in a command shell, I get an error, I have to put it all in " " but somehow the Process Start or even the Shell command is not doing that. Know what I mean
  

• Hashim Ahmed

   OK - so you want to call a console application (DOS application)

  Process.Start will enable you to do this.

  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h6ak8zt5.aspx

  An Example

   ' Run the Foo.bat passing in the path to a htm file.
  Process.Start("WordPad", "C:\test.txt")
  

  Obviously the path parameter here can be a variable or property from you Windows Application.  

   

  
  

• R.Tutus

  so far this is what I have

  Process.Start("C:\Documents and Settings\trojan\Desktop\Two Phase Flow\twophase.exe")

  This should work, I think, but it doesnt.

  
  

• GethWho

  Also if this is the current users desktop rather than hardcoding a path in there like that you can use the function to return the current path for the desktop.

  Dim s As String = ControlChars.Quote & My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.Desktop & "\Two Flow App.exe" & ControlChars.Quote

  Process.Start(s)

  There are a number of different special folders

  http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms172972.aspx

  
  

• ColinCJ

  Um, is this post answered It sounds like you still have a problem, but the thread is marked answered.

  Did you put the parameter in 'quotes' e.g """C:\test.txt"""

  
  
  
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