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echo: delphi
to: STEVE ROGERS
from: SIMON HUGGINS
date: 1997-06-02 18:20:00
subject: shelling from Delphi

Hi Steve,
On Saturday, 31 May 1997 at 08:26:00, Steve Rogers confused me
talking about: shelling from Delphi to All
 SR> How can I run other programs from Delphi? In TP/BP I
 SR> use the Exec procedure, but I can't find anything similar in
 SR> Delphi. I am trying to make a menu program.
With ShellExecute
e.g. to run terminate,
ShellExecute(hwnd(self), 'open', 'e:\apps\comms\ter400\terminat.exe', '',
'', SW_SHOWNORMAL);
Look it up in the API helpfile for more info.
bfn,
si.
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