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in thread running a perl script via Shell() in MS-Access

I had the file in the same dir as the db.. and perl is in the path. I found out that using the START command opens a file using its associated program .. it worked fine... ill post the crappy vb code to do it monday...
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Re: Re: Re: Re: running a perl script via Shell() in MS-Access
by aquarium (Curate) on Jul 07, 2003 at 01:13 UTC
    found it me thinks...seems to work by having silly Microstiff quoting like so:
    stAppName = """D:/Sirsi/Perl/Bin/perl5.6.0.exe"" " + " c:/work/abc.pl"
Call Shell(stAppName, 1)

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    Hope it works for you now
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