Re: VB script skelleton

From: Michael Harris \(MVP\) ("Michael)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:59:41 -0700

> I'm interested in writing a short script that executes
>
> * firefox (my browser)
> * GTray (an app that monitors my GMail)
>
> as background jobs because they both never exit, they just keep
> running. Could someone please give me a skelleton of a VB script that
> I could execute?

set shell = createobject("wscript.shell")
shell.run "some_program.exe"
'or...
shell.run """c:\some path with spaces\some_program.exe""" 

-- 
Michael Harris
Microsoft.MVP.Scripting
Sammamish WA US

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