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Calling Java or sytem cmd from WIn32 task

  • January 31, 2005 at 4:08 pm

    #66397

    I am trying to call the DEL and JAVA from two win32 tasks.

    The del fails with a 'File not found' error.  The Java just blinks.

    I can cut/paste the command line and parameters into a command line and the Java job runs successfully.

    Does anyone have any idea what is up here?

    TIA

  • January 31, 2005 at 7:09 pm

    #539843

    The command you specify must be a "real file" (i.e. you must be able to see the command you are running as a file and it must be an executable file e.g. an EXE or a CMD file).  The DEL command is actually internal to the CMD.Exe (or Command.com) program.  To run it, you could do something like

    CMD /C "DEL A.File"

    Not sure what the issue is with the Java file.  Suggest you check things like PATH variables and if you can , get it to log what it is doing.

  • February 2, 2005 at 9:38 am

    #540190

    Thanks - using the cmd approach works for the JAVA as well.  I actually ended up using the file system object to do the delete in order to have some error handling.

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