Date:         Tue, 22 Oct 2002 23:53:16 +0100
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From:         John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Using VB to call SAS
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At 11:35 22/10/02 -0700, David L. Cassell wrote:

>My usual workaround is to ditch VB for something with more
>flexibility in creating and dealing with spawned processes.
>Like Perl.  Of course, some people don't have the luxury of
>using appropriate tools for their tasks...

You may be right.  My usual reason for using VB to spawn another
program/process is to enable me to rapidly produce an aesthetically
pleasing (to the user/client) 'graphical shell' to surround that other
program(s)/process(es).

Do I take it that Pearl could do that easily?!

Kind Regards,


John

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