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rlent
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15 years ago

Calling a DOS command

I am testing loading a program from a command line. I can do this by calling a batch file, but Windows 7 prompts to ask me if I really want to execute the batch file. In addition, because the path to ...
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rlent
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15 years ago
Ok, this works:



Call Sys.OleObject("WScript.Shell").Run("""C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Acme Inc\\Anvil\\Anvil.exe"" username=a password=q")




But this does not:




Call Sys.OleObject("WScript.Shell").Run("""C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Acme Inc\\Anvil\\Anvil.exe"" Applet=\""

 This Applet\"" username=a password=q")




The Applet parameter can have spaces in it, that seems to be the problem