[thelist] Win System Calls from webpage

[Eric Cestari]

it depends on you App Server.
With PHP, you have the backtick `exe param`
or the exec() function.
refer to http://www.php.net/exec

c*
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Turley" <jay at weberrific.org>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 6:45 PM
Subject: [thelist] Win System Calls from webpage


> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------
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