Hi,

I am writing a small disk management program. I would like to be able to call some of the dos functions via my program. But the dos functions sometimes ask for arguments, such as 'are you sure?', and then one needs to type in 'y'.

I have seen that one can create a response.tmp file, that contains the arguments to pass to the dos program. i,e

Private Sub Form_Load()
 x = Shell("format a:\ < c:\response.tmp", SW_HIDE)
End Sub

Now this dos command works when I type it in dos, it formats the disk automatically.

But when I try to execute the dos command in my VB program, I get the error, file not found. I have heard something about a WinExec function, but am not sure how to use it... take the following code

Declare Function WinExec Lib "Kernel" (ByVal lpCmdFile As String, ByVal
   fuCmdShow As Integer) As Integer

How do I place this in my code, wherever I place this code, VB gives me an error.

Thanks
Greg

Take a look at the Windows Scripting Host objects, in particular the WScript.Shell object and its Exec method. When you use the Exec method to run a program, it returns a WshScriptExec object which provides access to stdin and stdout, which you can use to capture the program output and send a reply.

You need to set a ref to 'Windows Script Host Object Model' in your VB project.

hth
Phil