Hi; I want to write vb login screen and it will run a dos command. for example : login ID : a password : b c is a fix value after press ok button will be process a dos command X+a+b+c Can u help me ? Thank you Frank

Hi Can you try SHELL command Thanks Joythi

you can't run every dos command using shell for ecample dir OCX should be such that it returns output of the command. can anyone help me regarding this ? shabdar

I want to excecute dos command in visal basic . Dos command is dir >> file1.txt

Try this -- Dim taskID as Double taskID = Shell("C:\winnt\system32\cmd /C dir > file1.txt", 0) -- Should work in NT4 and W2K. The return value [taskID] is a handle to the aplication started, in this case it can safely be ignored. [cmd] is windows interpretator for classical command line DOS and [C:\winnt\system32\] is the path to it. The switch [/C] tells cmd to run the input string and then exit. [dir > file1.txt] is the DOS command and thus the input string to cmd. The last argument, [0], hides the new window that shell starts for the external application. To locate the output file, use [App.Path] to find out in which directory it ended up. Good luck

This a much better solution to the above problem: taskID = Shell(Environ$("Comspec") & " /c dir > file1.txt", 0)

i run ping command on sql mode by help $ e.g. $ping 172.16.8.1 then i find the particular server link is down or not . i want to store the result of ping command on database by using VB or c++. plz explain the way by which i can do this ?