[thelist] Win System Calls from webpage
Jay Turley
jay at weberrific.org
Thu Jan 25 13:12:31 CST 2001
Hi all-
does anyone know of a way to make a system call from a web page? Let me
explain the situation a little more:
We have a set of .zip files, each containing a metacode file. We also have
an executable (.exe) that converts a metacode file to a .pdf document.
Currently, we run a batch file to unzip all .zip files, convert all
resulting metacode files to .pdfs, and then store them on a file server in
a hierarchical manner.
Meanwhile, we have an ASP page that autogenerates links to any
existing .pdf files on the files server, then copies them into a download
directory with a random filename for users to view.
It's all cheesy.
The idea is that we would like to unzip a zip file, extract a metacode
file, and convert it to .pdf ALL ON THE FLY! Does anyone have any ideas
about this?
Thanks
*tip owed - coming soon*
- Jay Turley ---------------------------------------------------------
http://www.weberrific.org
"Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology"
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