Isn't that just the most obvious statement!?!?  Im wondering why, exactly, 
you cared to share such obvious point with the group?

I was merely presenting an option that might have not been explored by the 
original poster  because its pretty obvious that a COM/COM+ solution would 
provide a more flexible solution than a simple VB .EXE

/rob



At 03:17 PM 7/27/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Thee is a big difference between a vb program and a COM component.
>
>Adam Lang
>Systems Engineer
>Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert Chartier" <rchartierh@a...>
>To: "professional php" <pro_php@p...>
>Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 2:25 PM
>Subject: [pro_php] Re: Help how i exe a Vb program from php
>
>
> > Doesnt PHP 4 on a Windows box also support COM?
> >
> > might want to consider that too.
> >
> > VIII. COM support functions for Windows
> > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.com.php


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