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Possible to Call External Program from VFP MTDLL?
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
COM/DCOM and OLE Automation
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01138193
Message ID:
01138288
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12
>Hi All,
>
>Can anyone tell me if it's possible to call an external prg (or app or exe) from a VFP MTDLL registered as a COM+ application as long as the called program doesn't have any UI?
>
>When I try to do this, I get an inaccurate error message telling me "File external.prg does not exist". Just wondering if this breaks a rule that I'm not aware of.

Just a SWAG - are you specifying a fully-qualified file name (including path, preferably UNC so it's not dependent on drive mappings)?
Regards. Al

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