Yeah, I was checking that out, but it isn't working for me. How would the notepad.exe know where the file is? In my example, would I use Run Program "Access.exe C:\TestDB\DataBasetest.mdb" Or would it be something like Run Program "Access.exe DataBasetest" Neither of those seems to work. Thanks for the help. I am also a big fan of the help menu.:) alan
-----Original Message----- From: Jakob Lanstorp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 10:03 AM To: Alan Gunn Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: MI-L Run Application >From the MapBasic help: The following Run Program statement runs the Windows text editor, "Notepad," and instructs Notepad to open the text file THINGS.2DO. Run Program "notepad.exe things.2do" The following statement issues a DOS command. Run Program "command.com /c dir c:\mapinfo\ > C:\temp\dirlist.txt" TGIF Jakob Jakob Lanstorp Senior Consultant Geographical Information & IT COWI A/S Odensevej 95 5260 Odense S. Tel +45 6311 4900 Fax +45 6311 4949 Mob +45 5050 8087 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cowi.dk http://www.cowi.com -----Original Message----- From: Alan Gunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 4:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: MI-L Run Application Hey, me again. Is it possible to start another non-MI or non-MB application from a mapbasic application? For example, I want to have a button on my tool bar that will launch an access database outside of MI. I have tried a few things but all I get is "could not execute - program could not be run". Any hints? Thanks, Alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 17908
