Running a .DAT file through VB using a Shell ??

[bjgolden80]

Hi,

I am trying to run a .DAT file that contains ftp commands through a shell in VB (unsuccessfully).

Right now I am manually running a .DAT file through DOS to ftp files, but I want my VB program to do it on completion of file creation.

I need to pass the following commands to DOS through VB:

>cd q:
>ftp -ivs:ftptest.dat

Can anyone help me on the correct use of shell commands to do this ?

thanks!

 

[jebenson]

Copy your DOS commands into a text file and save it with a ".bat" extension. Then run it from VB like so:

Shell("C:\path\to\batch\file\batchfile.bat")

Of course, put the correct path and filename for your batch file.



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[bjgolden80]

Great...thanks for this. However the bat file just seems to run infinitely and never actually does anything other than repeat the commands over and over again ?