01-31-2024, 10:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-31-2024, 10:54 AM by PhilOfPerth.)
Thanks, all. But I'm afraid I wasn't able to get what I needed from any of those replies. (yes, Terry, I read all of those tuts).
There are obviously huge holes in my knowledge in this area. This code:
Shell "c:\dir > temp.txt" ' <-- this runs that shell command to C:\DIR and then pipes the output to "temp.txt".
Open "temp.txt" For Input As #1
Do Until EOF(1)
Line Input #1, text$
Print text$
Loop
returns a blank window.
shell "CMD"
gives the c: prompt, which I can then use by entering that window and using DOS commands (e.g. dir c: ) to get the tree structure.
I'd like to do all of that from within my programme. I suspect it's something to do with batch files, but I don't know how to run these from PE.
There are obviously huge holes in my knowledge in this area. This code:
Shell "c:\dir > temp.txt" ' <-- this runs that shell command to C:\DIR and then pipes the output to "temp.txt".
Open "temp.txt" For Input As #1
Do Until EOF(1)
Line Input #1, text$
Print text$
Loop
returns a blank window.
shell "CMD"
gives the c: prompt, which I can then use by entering that window and using DOS commands (e.g. dir c: ) to get the tree structure.
I'd like to do all of that from within my programme. I suspect it's something to do with batch files, but I don't know how to run these from PE.
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