Kenny, Did you know that BLAT is also available as BLAT.DLL. see: http://sourceforge.net/projects/blat/files/ and download blat262.full.zip
With the DLCALL function added to recent versions you should be able to issue a direct call to the function. Blat DLL blat.dll has one function, Send which takes a null terminated string which is the blat command line. The return is the value of the Return Code returned by Blat. See Blat Error Return Codes DocumentationBlat Error Return Codes Known Issues / Things to be aware of: Blat.dll works exactly like blat.exe. One difference is that when using blat.exe, the command interpreter (DOS box) removes extra spaces from the command line. When constructing the command line string to pass to the Blat.dll's Send function, be careful to construct the command line without any extra spaces. Do not include a trailing space in the Subject: -s "this is a bad thing to do " This will cause the send to fail. I haven't tried to do this direct connection yet. Currently I use RBase to create a BAT file with the complete command lines and then call the bat file for execution. My application calls for issuing email to a number of members. You also might want to access the documentation as when you have common or standard option you can write them to a file and refer to the file on the command line thus decreasing the size of you command line option. If you do decide to go the DLL route I would appreciate seeing your code to set up the DLCALL statements. Jim Bentley American Celiac Society [email protected] tel: 1-504-737-3293 ________________________________ From: Dan Goldberg <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 12:22:03 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: 7.6 compiler - Is zip supported? have you tried these: LAUNCH runh|.vcmd|W or LAUNCH runh|&vcmd|W or set var vcommand text = ('LAUNCH runh|' + .vcmd + '|W') --puts the command into a variable &vcommand --runs the command Dan Goldberg PS is that Runh program available?? It would like it if is. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kenny Camp Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 10:00 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - 7.6 compiler - Is zip supported? In the full version of R:Base 7.6 for Windows “ZIP runh .vcmd “ works exactly like I want, but not in my compiled version. Is ZIP supported in the compiler? I haven’t been able to get launch to work correctly for this yet. Runh.exe runs a file in the background (Thanks John) I’m trying to use BLAT.exe and it’s parameters in a variable to send email from my Citrix server directly using SMTP instead of setting up 50 email clients on the Citrix server (one for each user now and add one for each in the future) Example of vcmd blat.exe -f [email protected] -to [email protected] -subject "CRM Communication METRO AVIATION, INC. 48025 Record# 192 AT8 Tami / Greg " -server smtpout.xxxxx.net -bodyf \elec\crm_email\6.txt -u [email protected] -pw xxxxx -log \elec\crm_email\CRM_Log.txt Kenny Camp
