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Can you execute DOS commands from within a sanScript procedure

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Posted on by mavrick5au 6

We have a routine that builds a HTML file to send to a user.  I do this by writing the text file to a directory and then sending the file via email.

What I want to do is delete the file again at the end of the the process. 

Dexterity has Text_FileOpen and Text_FileClose commands to open and close a file, but no command to delete a file.  I thought I may be able to use the DOS del command but I can't get that to work either.

Any ideas?  The only other thing I can think to do is to write little application in .NET to do the file delete and call that using the "run application" command within SanScript.

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    MG-16101311-0 26,225 on at

    Dexterity also provides the File_Delete() function. Just pass in the full path and name of the file in generic format, for example:

    local string filePath = "C:\SomeFolder\SomeFile.txt";
local boolean result;

filePath = Path_MakeGeneric(filePath);
result = File_Delete(filePath);
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    MG-16101311-0 26,225 on at

    By the way, you can run a DOS command from Dexterity too:

    local string cmdPath = "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe";
local string cmdParams = "/c dir C:\Temp\*.*";

run application cmdPath, cmdParams;


    If you want to keep the command shell window open, just use /k instead of /c.

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    mavrick5au 6 on at

    Thanks Mariano.  That solves my problem.  Has this command always been there or only in the more recent versions of Dex?

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    MG-16101311-0 26,225 on at

    It's always been there -- or less put it this way, as far back as I can remember :-)

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