Re: Run file as exe?

On Tue, 17 May 2005 01:13:40 GMT, "Trammel" <Me@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I wish to have an update.exe run first, download updates into .dat files and
>then execute main.dat as an executable so that my program only has one .exe
>file and looks integrated with loader.
>
>Does anyone know of a method I could use so that "Loader.exe" could run
>"Main.dat" as an exe?
>(or any renamed .exe, like "Main.txt", etc)?
>


Try
Call Shell( Main.txt )

You might be rather surprized

.

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