Re: Running DOS app with command line options

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From: Paul Butcher
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:02

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In article <36@hymir.mlb.dmt.csiro.au> gsl@mlb.dmt.csiro.au (Geoff Lamb) writes:
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>I would like make my windows program run the following DOS command :
>
>	rsh %1 "sendmail %2 %3 %4" < %5
>
>I have created a batch file with this command and a pif file to run it.
>
>My problem is that I can get the thing to run using WinExec() with no command
>line options (the %1's ) but I can't see how I can get the command options in.
>I have tried the LoadModule() function but it apparently only likes true Windows
>programms and not pif's.
>
The function you want is ShellExecute - it can be found in the
shell.dll library shipped with version 3.1.

PaulB->msgCount++

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Subject: Re: Running DOS app with command line options
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