Calling external programas or O.S. commands from PowerCobol 3

[Adolfito]

Hi!
Please, can anybody give me a little example how cam i call
an external program (like EDIT.EXE or EDIT.COM) using DDE or another way.
Thanks.
Adolfito.

 

[Dimandja]

Hi Adolfito,

Link to:

http://www.adtools.com/student/samples/

and download CBLEXEC. This project has a good example.

Dimandja

 

[Dimandja]

Hi Adolfito,

The previous example was for COBOL V3

For PowerCOBOL, link to:

http://www.adtools.com/student/samples/

and download OSEXEC. This project has a good example.

Dimandja

 

[gphuber]

If you use the example you have to write the command in " when you use long names and aou have spaces in the path.

Goetz