Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 13:37:39 04/06/02
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On April 06, 2002 at 14:59:55, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>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!
I see one difference between starting it from a command line and starting it
from the desktop: the environment variables might be different. You know, the
ones you set with the "SET" DOS command.
Hope this helps...
Christophe
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