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Running DOS Commands and Returning Result Codes?
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
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00080871
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>>>>I need to be able to run a DOS command (in particular the "net use" command) and see any results given by the command. In other words, instead of the results being printed to the screen I need them to be returned to my foxpro program. Any ideas? Hmm...I'm stymied.
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>>>TRY "run net use >somefile"
>>>then examine somefile for the output and you can work with it from there.
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>>That was the first thought I had too, but the problem is in NT 3.51 (we are running a citrix server) the output is still printed to the screen.
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>I should clarify here: We are using FP2.6 for DOS and the output of the net use command is being shown on the application screen. We are trying to supress this output. Even when I try 'run net use LPT1 \\blah\blah > NULL' the net use output is printed to the FP console. I've also tried using NOCONSOLE with no results. Hmm..this is a tricky one.

Here's a cludgy work around you could try. Create a window that is identical (in appearance) to the system screen. Activate the window, run your dos command, clean up the main screen and then release the window.
Michael McLain
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