RE: Determining When a DOS Command is Finished In Access - BCP
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There is a better method that shelling out to a .bat file to do this. Look
at the FileSearch object in Access. I think if you replace your DOS shell to
the FileSearch, you will be happier with the result.
"BCP" wrote:
> I have an auto hyperlinking process that creates a DOS BAT file that performs
> the DIR command and writes it to a text file. The process works great most
> of the time but some times Access gets ahead of the DOS command. I need to
> find a way to tell if the DOS command has finished or if the DOS window,
> which closes after the command is completed, has closed. Possibly if I could
> determine the status of a given Window or the presence of a Window that might
> be the ticket.
.
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