>>Hi all,
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>>I have a customer who wants to call a scanning program automatically. Should be no problem so I've put the location of the exe file into a memo filed and call it with the Run command, nothing happens. If I call other programs on a mapped drive they start fine, if I call other programs in the c:\test1 folder they start fine. The program location I am trying to call is
>>c:\program files\hp\hp laserjet mfp 400abc\bin\scan.exe
>>When I click on my button to run this exe the dos box pops up very briefly and disappears but the scan.exe program does not start. From a security point of view I have added everyone with full control to the hp laser... folder and also ensures that those right are similar in the bin folder. I have opened a dos box and typed in the location and file as one command and it started so I'm baffled on this one.
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>Spaces in the path... did you include quotation marks around the filename?
I've tried it both with and without quotes, the code I run is below

mrunfile = ALLTRIM(memo1)
RUN &mrunfile

memo1 contains "C:\Program Files\HP\HP LaserJet 400 MFP M425\bin\HPScan.exe". I have tried doing this by hard coding in the location of the file as well. If I change the above to C:\folde1\program.exe it works.
~M