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General: Run Dos Batch files from Access

Author(s)
Dev Ashish

(Q)    How can I run a Dos BAT file from Access?

(A)    An easy way is to use Shell. (Thanks Trevor Best!)

    For example, if I have a batch file called "Test.bat", the code from Access would look like

call Shell ( Environ$ ( "COMSPEC" ) & " /c  c:\test.bat", vbNormalFocus)  

Environ$("COMSPEC") returns the path to Command.com on the machine and the "/c" argument makes sure that the Dos window is automatically closed when the batch file finishes executing.


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