Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 11:59:55 04/06/02
I have gone through several iterations in my attempt to create a simple GUI to facilitate giving the contents of the clipboard to Chest under Windows. In each case I ran into problems that I believe are specific to either Microsoft Windows in general, to just Windows XP, to Visual Basic 6, or the interaction between them WinXP & VB. The most recent symptom is as follows: When I run a DOS shell and type the following command manually, it works 100% correctly. When instead this EXACT SAME command is sent to the OS by my app (using VB's "Shell" statement), it only works once in awhile: chest -b -Z 15 Chester!.tmp where the contents of Chester!.tmp are (in either case): 8/8/8/p7/8/8/R6p/2K2Rbk w - - ce 1; Most of the time, Chest either does not run at all or perhaps runs and quits so quickly as to be nearly undetectable. Any ideas / help appreciated!
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