If you use automation, you can use WinUDF to start your VbScript file and pass the value via the WinUDF parameter. The behavior will be the same. RBase will pause execution while the WinUDF runs...
----- Original Message ----- From: "tellef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 1:21 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Pagemode in Windows Larry >But LAUNCH can also be used with a complete >command line (LAUNCH C:\RBTI\RBDOS65\RBASE.EXE DoRep.CMD) and will work >similarly to a ZIP command except that the specified program will run in a >separate process. (At least, I think that's true).< Yes you're right. The 'enhanced' version of Launch that accepts parameters can now work that way. The original version didn't take parameters so I think you were stuck on file associations or just bringing up an .exe without startup options. >You could set up the Access database with just your report and links to the >R:Base data. Then specify a startup form that would print the report and >then quit Access. That would print the report with no user intervention. EXACTLY what I planned on doing. I would have RBase do the questioning to determine which ID# to print the report for. Then in order for Access to know which item to print, I was thinking of having RBase drop a text file on the hard drive with the ID# in it, having Access read the text file. In the meantime, I'm exploring write out to an HTML file from within RBase. It's alot easier than I thought and might be the ticket if I can get a few formatting and page break issues settled. If it works, I might post it in case it helps anyone. Karen
