InfoPath Dev

Hi,

I have been searching for a while now on how to make remote shell calls from JScript.

For the form i am creating at the moment i have an inhouse system that i need to obtain information from, the problem is the only way in is by using a remote shell call.

Does anyone know how to do this in JScript.

Regards

Lee

Lee A Newson

OK, so i have managed to figure out how to run the script and command i need, however now i have a bigger problem and i am really stuck on this.

the code i used to run the script was this:

var Shell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.shell");
var strCMD = "rsh machine name -l username java -cp c:\\jdk1.3\\bin GenXMLT \"where bug_id = " + eventObj.NewValue + "\"";
Shell.Run(strCMD);

when this is run a line is returned and displayed in the command window... how can i get that line and put it in the form???

i tried copying the function into Visual Studio so that i could see all the properties etc of "Shell", but there doesn't seem to be anything that can read the returned data.

Cheers for any help

Lee


Lee A Newson

OK, i have finally managed to find out how to do this...

var Shell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.shell");
var strCMD = "put your command here";
		
var oExec = Shell.Exec(strCMD);
var oExecOut = oExec.StdOut;

var input = "";
input = oExecOut.ReadAll();

in the end it turned out to be quite simple... i just didn't understand WScript very well... i do now!

Lee A Newson

Thanks for updating us on how you solved the issue.

Shanthi
InfoPathDev India