> I would like to know if this is possible to do in outlook 2000 with
> VBA.

> I would like my client to be able to go to my website fill out a form
> and have an email sent to a specified address that is formatted in a
> certain way.  All this is done and works.  The big question is I would
> like to have outlook(vba)  process the mail and extract info from the
> body ( I got that working also) , I then need to grab one element of
> the email and use it as the argument to a command line license
> generator.  I woul dthen like to capture the output of that program
> and send an email back to the client with his new license information.
> I have been able to do the email part also.  The part I can't figure
> out is how to run the cmdline(dos) program from vba and feed it a
> argument and capture the output.

> If this is possible please supply any help that you can.

> Karlo S.

> I would like to know if this is possible to do in outlook 2000 with
> VBA.

> I would like my client to be able to go to my website fill out a
form
> and have an email sent to a specified address that is formatted in a
> certain way.  All this is done and works.  The big question is I
would
> like to have outlook(vba)  process the mail and extract info from
the
> body ( I got that working also) , I then need to grab one element of
> the email and use it as the argument to a command line license
> generator.  I woul dthen like to capture the output of that program
> and send an email back to the client with his new license
information.
> I have been able to do the email part also.  The part I can't figure
> out is how to run the cmdline(dos) program from vba and feed it a
> argument and capture the output.

> If this is possible please supply any help that you can.

> Karlo S.

>Look in the Help for the Run command for Windows Scripting. That will
>let you run your program with a commandline. The Help file you want is
>Wsh.chm but the example for Run is wrong. You don't use the Wscript
>before the CreateObject function.

> That leave the cmd(dos) window open how can this be closed? I don't
> see that option in the intWindowStyle .  I notice in the help that I
> don't have access to the spawned process I/O stream, isn't that what
I
> want?

> Karlo S.

>You would have to have your DOS program write the return data to a
>file or to environment variables. Does your program have a way to exit
>and close the command window? I'm not sure about any other way of
>closing it.

> No it cannot close the window itself.  The whole idea was to basicaly
> do this: licensegen code
> where licensegen is a dos program
> code is the argument ie "12345678"

> the output from the dos program is a printf to STDOUT

> I just needed to grab that STDOUT line and send it via email back to
> my customer.

> Th edos program was written in C++ (I did not write it) if there is a
> instruction that I can insert into the C++ code that will destroy the
> window it's operating in  I might be able to add that into the program
> and recompile.

> Thanks

> Karlo S.

> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:16:28 -0500, "Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]"

> >You would have to have your DOS program write the return data to a
> >file or to environment variables. Does your program have a way to
exit
> >and close the command window? I'm not sure about any other way of
> >closing it.