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Starting An EXE Remotly
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21/05/2001 17:37:54
 
 
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15/05/2001 23:26:08
Al Doman (Online)
M3 Enterprises Inc.
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00507633
Message ID:
00509697
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>>Any odeas on how to launch an EXE which resides on
>>another PC, so that it runs on that PC?
>
>You didn't say if you want it to start on demand, or if it should start at the same time every day (e.g. overnight maintenance process). If it's the latter, you can make use of an available scheduling service.
>
>If you want it to start on-demand, I don't think there's any way to have absolutely nothing running on the remote PC, then get it to start up a program. The remote PC must have some sort of "listening" process running, waiting for some sort of message.
>

Actually, if the remote PC and caller are both running Win2K, you can use a variant of the AT command line syntax to start a process remotely.
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