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    Command Line Arguments Tutorial

    strongm, Thank you for assisting me this far. I have tried to get some programs from the internet that can do both STDOUT(to the STDIN program) and STDIN(from the STDOUT program) but i've not been able to tie the two to test the functionality. Since I am not good at programming of this kind...
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    Command Line Arguments Tutorial

    BRILLIANT!!!!!!
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    Command Line Arguments Tutorial

    Stongm, Thanks for the tip. I have read up on STDIN. The challenge now it how to get my application to accept the text stream without typing the <application name><arguments>. I would like my application to "listen" and accept any stream that comes in. Is this possible. Thanks once again.
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    Command Line Arguments Tutorial

    Strongm, Thank you very much for the idea. I'll try to read up on it and advise if it is going to be the solution I was looking for. Thanks
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    Command Line Arguments Tutorial

    The process flow is as under: 1) Some text is sent to the computer that I would like to use. 2) When the text arrives, it goes to a "redirector" application that directs the stream to another application which does the formatting and prints the formatted text. 3) The "redirector" can be...
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    Command Line Arguments Tutorial

    Strongm However, I can configure the stream What i mean is that I can direct the stream to write into a text file or ,(if there's a VB solution for my problem) , go to my appliacation
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    Command Line Arguments Tutorial

    Bobrodes, By process it I mean format it. The feed that I am talking about is very sensitive and it would not be acceptable to have it save to a file before I run my program to do the formatting on it. It has to be done on-the-fly. An example of formatting could be Feed coming in as : {ABC Co...
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    Command Line Arguments Tutorial

    Dear all, I have the following requirements for my application: Currently there is a process which sends some text to a program on a PC. The program formats the text and generates a print out. I have no access to the source code of the program which does the above. However, I can configure the...
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    Runtime Error '5' Please assist

    strongm, Thank you very much for the response. What is the solution for this problem. Why does it give me a runtime error?
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    Runtime Error '5' Please assist

    Stongm, I would appreciate the explanation on IDE. Hopefully, it will help me resolve the problem.
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    Runtime Error '5' Please assist

    Private Sub cmdopenfile_Click() On Error GoTo errorhandler filename2 = " " dlgopen.Filter = "Swift Files (*.dat)|*.dat| Swift Files (*.out)|*.out" dlgopen.Flags = _ cdlOFNFileMustExist + _ cdlOFNHideReadOnly + _ cdlOFNLongNames + _ cdlOFNExplorer...
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    Runtime Error '5' Please assist

    Hi Experts, I'm using a common dialog control to get a filename from the user. The code and all other properties for the control work fine except fot the FileName property. When I select dlgopen.FileName from the drop down menu, VB changes it to dlgopen.filename. Clearly, there is a problem...
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    icons

    Hello, Thank you all for the invaluable advice and help.I have started using microangelo and it is great for the purpose of creating icons. Thank you once again
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    Removing Software Manually

    Hello, I have a problem with my computer.I tried installing Norton Antivirus 2001 and it stopped responding half way thru the installation.I was forced to use ctrl+alt+del to end the task.Now the problem is that the installation is not complete and it wont uninstall or reinstall.I wanted to...
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    Online Payments

    Hello, I would like to purhase something online using my credit card.However, i am kinda scared to give my credit card number as i dont know how genuine/trustworthy the site is. I wanted to know if there is a way to verify the reliability of the website so that i could give them the credit card...

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