Thanks again Aengus, your suggestion worked. I was able to change the directory and
the program runs fine now.
-Jessica
Aengus Lawlor wrote:
> Jessica, I'd guess, based on the errors that you are getting, that the
> shell command isn't setting the "working directory" for the application
> it's launching, so that when you call c:\analog\analog.exe, the
> application is running in the directory of the VB application, so
> instead of looking for C:\ANALOG\LANG\uk.lng it's actually looking for
> C:\VBDirectory\LANG\uk.lng.
>
> VBs shell command doesn't seem to include a "working directory"
> parameter, so I'm not sure what the best way to set it, but you might
> just try
>
> ChDir "C:\ANALOG"
>
> just before your shell command. (You might need ChDrive "C" as well).
>
> Aengus
>
> ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
> Subject: Re: [analog-help] Analog 3.3 and VB5
> Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Internet
> Date: 6/23/99 5:30 PM
>
> A few more details.....
> I ran the program as many times as I could, and I saw 3 errors/warnings:
>
> Warning: Failed to open configuration file analog.cfg: Ignoring it
> Warning: Failed to open language file lang/uk.lng: Ignoring it
> Fatal Error: Can't read language file lang/uk.lng: exiting
>
> When double click on analog.exe or run it from the command prompt by typing
> analog.exe, the program works fine and generates the report. Should I assume
> that Analog can't run through Visual Basic?
>
> Thanks,
> Jessica
>
> Jessica Vellela wrote:
>
> > Hi-
> >
> > I'm trying to create a VB program that will automatically download log
> > files and run Analog on them (on NT 4). I'm having trouble trying to
> > run Analog from VB using VB's Shell() command: the program flashes up
> > in a dos window, then disappears and the report isn't generated. If
> > anyone has any ideas about this I'd really appreciate it.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Jessica
> >
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