Yuri,

I'm playing around with this, trying to tie it into some user notification options, and when I run it nothing happens. If I set nShowWindow to 1 I see a DOS box with nothing in it, if I set it to 0 nothing appears. This is a new functionality for me so I'm curious what I should be seeing.

Renoir

>Try this:
> DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute ;
> IN SHELL32.DLL ;
> INTEGER nWinHandle,;
> STRING cOperation,;
> STRING cFileName,;
> STRING cParameters,;
> STRING cDirectory,;
> INTEGER nShowWindow
>
>lcuser=alltr(substr(sys(0), rat("#",sys(0))+1))
>lccom="Process failed! Try again later."+chr(13)+chr(10)+"Hello, second line goes here"
>
>? ShellExecute(0,"open","net"," send "+lcuser + " "+lccom,"",0)
>
>
>>in an application i want to send a message to a user using net send
>>
>>i am doing this using run /n net send username message text
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>>the trouble with this is twofold.
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>>1. it flashes up a dos box
>>2. i would like to be able to format the message text to have several lines each with different information on it, this data is pulled from various tables. i have no problem with the fox code for this. the problem is how do i format the net send command message text to have it over several lines instaead of one long line ?
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>>is this possible ?
>>
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>Colin Burton