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[Sean Graves]

Platform: Windows XP
Mfc : 524

We have one set of BOOTS that runs on many different platforms, Windows NT,
Unix, Windows XP.

Part of our code requires us to run an application on the server where the
kernel lives. The application runs and after it has completed proiv then
reads a file that the application created.

We have used the SYSTEM verb and this works fine on Windows NT or UNIX
platforms.

However when you are a Standalone version using the pro32.exe eg Windows XP
then the system verb displays a console window ( DOS Black Box running CMD
shell ), then execute the application and finally disappears.

We are executing the following line:
"\myapp.exe parameter1 parameter2 parameter3"


I have also tried it with the word "WINDOWS " inserted at the front of the
above example :
"WINDOWS \myapp.exe parameter1 parameter2 parameter3"



Is there a way to execute the SYSTEM verb with out the console window
appearing ?


Otherwise is there a way of detecting when you are standalone ?

Any help will be appreciated.

[mdexter]

I don't know if this will help, but with XP you can run PRO-IV as client server using pro32srv.exe. We do this because we use SQL Server and this is (or was) not supported in stand-alone configuration.

Mark Dexter

[Sean Graves]

Cheers for the reply.

Last I heard was you could not get Multi-User licenses for Windows XP to run as a service ?

That's why we ended up using the standalone version.