Re: Executing Operating System commands from stored proc

Wicksey wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Many thanks for the replies I got to my original post, and apologies if it > came across rude. For those that asked for more information, I am running > SE on Windows NT4, and have migrated a database from On-Line Dynamic Server > running on a Unix box along with stored procedures. The stored procedure > builds a string and calls SYSTEM with that string as a parameter, although > this doesn't appear to work on NT. What command should I replace SYSTEM > with to be able to call stored procedures from a NewEra GUI? > > Thanks again for the responses, > > Wicksey > > For example: create procedure sys_test( a char(16) ) system 'cmd.exe /C echo '|| a ||' >> C:\\tmp\\output.txt'; end procedure; Check also release notes to avoid error 640. HTH Vardan Aroustamian -- vaar@geocities.com