At 10:05 AM 11/14/2005, Bob Thompson wrote:
I have an application where I am mapping a drive
using the NET USE command. It does not work with
LAUNCH but works fine with ZIP. Is this the
intended syntax? For some reason I thought ZIP
was being replaced by LAUNCH.
This works:
ZIP net use L: <file://\\DellServer\Public>\\DellServer\Public
/persistent:yes /user:username password
This does not work nor shows any errors:
LAUNCH net use L: <file://DellServer/Public>\\DellServer\Public
/persistent:yes /user:username password
Is ZIP the preferred syntax?
Bob,
FYI, the LAUNCH command is used to launch any program
which is associated with the Windows File Association
or by providing the full path of any executable program
followed by supported parameter or option.
The LAUNCH command has opened so many possibilities
that sometimes we wonder what programs and/or files
can be LAUNCHed...
Well, the answer is very simple!
Using your operating systems' Explorer, if you can
double click on any file and it opens that doubled
clicked file with appropriate program...Bingo! You
can open that file from within R:BASE for Windows
(and 7.5 for DOS) using the LAUNCH command. It's
that simple.
Basically, when any program is installed, it usually
has its proprietary or favorite file extensions. For
example, .RBA is the file association to LAUNCH R:BASE
7.1 for Windows, .TXT for Windows NotePad, .PDF for
Adobe Acrobat Reader, .DOC for MS Word .WPD for Corel
WordPerfect, mailto: for your default e-mail
program and so on ...
Hope that explains!
Very Best R:egards,
Razzak.
