Do anyone know how to return information from a .cmd file, a return code and a message as an example, to VB after starting the .cmd file with the CreateProcessA api call?

Have you looked at the SHELL command? Doesn't it give back a return value?

Greg Serrano
Michigan Dept. of Environmental Quality, Air Quality Division

Greg,
Thanks to your answer.
I find the Shell command not suited in my case. The Shell function runs other programs asynchronously, meaning I can risk having the next Vb statement executed before the Shell function is finished executing, as I understand. In my case I am starting a long running .cmd file with CreateProcessA. This lets me wait with the WaitForSingleObject until the shelled application is finished.
In .cmd files you can test for errorlevel. This is what I would like to pass back to VB together with a message text depending on where in the file errorlevel was raised.

After the wait for process termination using WaitForSingleObject, you can use GetExitCodeProcess to get the exit code:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q129796/

Marco

Marco,

Thanks for your advice. This will do.

Helge