Re: Delete command in a script..

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"Andre Laplume via AccessMonster.com" <forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in message news:b3d69e84f00b4219b6155989bfee0aad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Well it technically is in MSAccess now in a form's VBA...I want to
> get it it out and schedule the delete. Anyway, when I click START
> RUN (as a test) then type del C:\filename....it says: 'Windows can
> not find 'del'...error.

Using cmd.exe, you have to specify the command to be executed with the
/c command-line argument. But to test what you're trying to do, why not
create a .bat file containing the del command, then run that .bat file
using Start -> Run... ?

It works.

--
Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
www.datagnostics.com

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