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[Patty McBride]

Hello Folks,
I trying to get my system to execute a perl script on
my server for a client.

I am confused because the code I inherited used to
work on NT 4 but now does not on WIN 2000 Server.

After some discussion with ashok about WSH I reviewed
my tests and got the following to work:

Dim WshShell
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Response.write("WSHshell.CurrentDirectory: " &
WSHshell.CurrentDirectory)

It printed out:
WSHshell.CurrentDirectory: C:\WINNT\system32

So I got an object but what kind of object?  I can get
the property CurrentDirectory of the
IWshRuntimeLibrary class WSHshell to tell me the
CurrentDirectory but I have yet to get it to run one
of its methods.

I tried this test as an additional line to the above
.asp script:
WshShell.Run "C:\WINNT\system32\calc.exe"

But it does nothing.  No error.  No Calculator popping
up as I would asume it would???  I am expecting the
same behavior as I would if I had typed calc from the
command line or in the run field from the start menu.
This doesn't work either:
WshShell.Run "calc"

This used to work on NT 4:

Function extractArticles(strParameters)
	Dim WSHshell
	set WSHshell=createObject("WScript.Shell")
	on error resume next
	extractArticles=WSHshell.run ("D:\perl\bin\perl.exe "
& databasePath & "extractArticles.pl " &
strParameters,4,TRUE)
End Function

and stopped when I switched to 2000 Server.  Again, no
error, no results either.  This perl script extracts
articles from a database to a directory in the server.
 It works from the command line...

Cheers,
Phil


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