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Chris disregard my previous/next post I hadn't seen my original post or your
reply.

Anyways. It didn't solve my problem directly, but the link allowed me to
learn from his example and resolve my issue.

Who knew the exe was the target and the db with the cmd line switch was the
argument?! Because I was including the db with the exe as the target, it
wouldn't work.

I can't believe something this simple took me this long to get to work.

Thank you for sticking with me on this one!

QB

 

[Chris O'C via AccessMonster.com]

Glad you finally got it working. I hate to admit how long I fought with it
myself until I found Tom's code last year. He's got more good tips and
examples like that on his site.

If you look around his site on the right days, you'll find things to click on
where you can register for prizes. I think he gives away prizes to customers
and site visitors every quarter or something. One of my coworkers won
Windows Vista Ultimate. I haven't won anything yet, but I found pics of a
gold key, a boy running, a baby in a high chair, and some ads that weren't
really ads. I clicked on them and registered for a prize. Maybe I haven't
looked hard enough, but I don't think those pics or ads show up every day.
They're on random pages, that's for sure. 11 bookmarks so far.

Chris

Chris disregard my previous/next post I hadn't seen my original post or your
reply.

Anyways. It didn't solve my problem directly, but the link allowed me to
learn from his example and resolve my issue.

Who knew the exe was the target and the db with the cmd line switch was the
argument?! Because I was including the db with the exe as the target, it
wouldn't work.

I can't believe something this simple took me this long to get to work.

Thank you for sticking with me on this one!

QB

I told you you need special syntax. I found the example on Tom
Wickerath's site.

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[Chris O'C via AccessMonster.com]

You're quite welcome. Glad I could shed some light!

Chris

The result of not supplying a complete os command is the os will look in the
registry for the executable associated with the file name and associated

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That means no matter how many arguments you supplied, it only accepts one
argument, the file name, and ignores the rest.

ahhhhhhh....

Thanks, Chris. I knew about the phenomenon (and still remember some of the old
DOS 3.11 command line syntax) but had never seen this excellent explanation of
why it works that way.