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asptoday_discuss thread: WScript Shell


Message #1 by "laeg byrne" <laeg_enterprises@y...> on Mon, 3 Dec 2001 17:04:53
Is there a certain restriction on what a wscript shell

can execute??? The sample code below would work were

xyz to be instantiated to ping, ipconfig, etc. Yet

if you wanted it to execute a non system batch file

it cannot do so. Any ideas??????



Set objWSHShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

strCommand = " xyz "

Set objExec = objWSHShell.Exec (strCommand)
Message #2 by "Greg Jennings" <greg.jennings@t...> on Mon, 3 Dec 2001 19:13:46
> Is there a certain restriction on what a wscript shell

> can execute??? The sample code below would work were

> xyz to be instantiated to ping, ipconfig, etc. Yet

> if you wanted it to execute a non system batch file

> it cannot do so. Any ideas??????

> 

> Set objWSHShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

> strCommand = " xyz "

> Set objExec = objWSHShell.Exec (strCommand)



It seems like only executable programs (.EXE's) can be executed.  Have you 

specified the full path, filename, and extension of the batch file?

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