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Re: launching executables from idl [message #30008 is a reply to message #30005]

Wed, 27 March 2002 17:32

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Jonathan Pearce (jvp10@psu.edu) writes:

> Is it possible to launch executables (*.exe) from IDL? I would like to
> use IDL to write a front end program which would call various
> executables. These executables also need to have command line options
> passed to them.
>
> Can it be done? In the documentation I can only see references to
> calling dlls.
>
> I'd be most grateful for any responses,

Use SPAWN. The command string you send to the OS can have
all kinds of command line arguments, you just won't
be able to pass any IDL variables to your routines.

Cheers,

David
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