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Andrew_Fryer
June 19th, 2001, 05:38 AM
Is there any way to call a UNIX command from MS-ACCESS. I need to extract the version number of a file from a Unix box using SCCS.

Thanks

Andrew

Clearcode
June 19th, 2001, 06:10 AM
You probably need to use some form of third party middleware. We use "Orbix" which is a corba based interface that supports COM on the clinet and can therefore be used from any ActiveX automation client (Access, VB etc.)
It isn't easy though.

HTH,
Duncan

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