When are you checking the text file? ShellExecute runs async so the process doesn't wait and if you read it too soon the file will always be empty (or locked).

I use CreateProcessEx in wwAPI for this:

************************************************************************
* wwAPI :: CreateprocessEx
****************************************
***  Function: Calls the CreateProcess API to run a Windows application
***    Assume: Gets around RUN limitations which has command line
***            length limits and problems with long filenames.
***            Can do Redirection
***            Requires wwIPStuff.dll to run!
***      Pass: lcExe - Name of the Exe
***            lcCommandLine - Any command line arguments
***    Return: .t. or .f.
************************************************************************
FUNCTION CreateProcessEx(lcExe,lcCommandLine,lcStartDirectory,;
                         lnShowWindow,llWaitForCompletion,lcStdOutputFilename)

which allows capturing the StdOutput data and wait for completion. Since you are a Web Connection user that's easily available to you. Note though that it depends on wwipstuff.dll to handle the async wait loop and command line capture.

Hope this helps,

+++ Rick ---


>I am trying to come up with a way to capture the output of the Qwinsta command to a text file and then later parse it out to determine the current sessions open in RDS. To accomplish the first part I want to use shellexecute to run the command. For a brief time yesterday it worked and then something changed! I don't know what it is but I cannot even see a simple echo command.
>
>Here is what I am trying:

>
>#DEFINE SW_HIDE             0
>DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute ;
>	    IN SHELL32.DLL ;
>	    INTEGER nWinHandle,;
>	    STRING cOperation,;   
>	    STRING cFileName,;
>	    STRING cParameters,;
>	    STRING cDirectory,;
>	    INTEGER nShowWindow
>
>lcDir=GETENV("APPDATA")
>
>lcCmd = GetEnv("comspec")
>lccdm = "dir"
>
>? lccmd, lcDir
>
>lcPrm = " /c qwinsta >> mytest.txt"
>lcPrm = lcDir+"\mytest.txt"
>lcPrm = " echo hello >> mytest.txt "
>
>=ShellExecute(0, "", lcCmd, lcPrm, lcDir, 0)
>

>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Glenn