RE: Running tasks on a PC.

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You probably don't need the whole path.  I'd bet you could try it from Start
--> Run on the Windows box and see what happens.  Usually  just    notepad
will open notepad.  I'd expect that  " iexplore " would open the browser for
you? 
 
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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 18:57:11
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Roll, Jaymi
Subject: RE: Running tasks on a PC.
 
I'm trying to figure out how to start a task on a PC. Here's the application
scenario we'd like to support:
 
The user performs selects a menu option on the AS/400 (green screen under
Client Access), and on the resulting green screen panel, presses a function
key. When the function key is pressed, we'd like to cause MS Internet
Explorer to start and navigate to a certain URL.(i.e. like "IEXPLORE.EXE
http://www.midrange.com";). We'd like the URL to be variable depending upon
the user.
 
I tried using STRPCO, STRPCCMD and it didn't work. Part of the reason was
because I couldn't specify the path "c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer" ...
because that's not a valid DOS path? I'm also concerned about relying on PCO
because I'm not sure it's a command with much of a future...if DOS doesn't
have much of a future!
 
I've read information about RUNRMTCMD but the problem is that I want to
execute the command on the PC that the green screen is running on and I'm
not sure I'll know the IP address of that PC.
 
Can anyone offer guidance?
 
==Kevin Brunk
The Butler Company
5600 Blazer Parkway
Dublin, OH 43017-7545
TEL: 614-659-1666
FAX: 614-659-1667
 
 
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