thetambarineman
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Hi,<br>once again i lookin for some help-<br>i want to use the shell to say for instance<br>change the dir,from the default (c:\windows) to c:<br><br>any ideas??<br><br>thanks fer your help<br><br>paul<br>
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Use ChDrive to change the default drive and ChDir to change the default folder... or did you have a particular reason you wanted to use Shell?<br> <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= temporary Vorpalcom home page</a><br>Send me suggestions or comments on my current software project.
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thetambarineman
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Thanks for your reply-<br>In reply to your question:<br><br> i also want to call a program<br><br>what i thought was it would be the same as the shell ordinarily - i.e. - shell("<pathname> <filename or text", vbmaximisedfocus)<br><br>so say I wanted to call the reg code in Windows 95:<br> attrib - etc<br><br>how would i do that???<br><br>Thanks once again.<br><br>Paul...<br><br>
Try:<br><br>InternalDOScmd$ = "attrib -h c:\msdos.sys"<br>Shell "c:\windows\command.com /c " & InternalDOScmd$<br><br>But if you want to get or set a file attribute you should use GetAttr and SetAttr. Almost all of the internal DOS commands have equivalents in VB. Some require a little coding but they all run cleaner and with less overhead than you would encounter by loading additional copies of the command processor.<br> <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= temporary Vorpalcom home page</a><br>Send me suggestions or comments on my current software project.
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